The Labor Department said more than 1,000 Black and female applicants could have been passed over at distribution centers in Lewisville and New Braunfels.
, potentially discriminated against 798 Black or female applicants at the Lewisville facility and 370 Black or female applicants in New Braunfels. The Labor Department said it discovered the discriminatory practices during routine compliance reviews.
“No person should be rejected when they apply for a job because of their gender or their race,” said Melissa Speer, southwest regional director of the Labor Department’s office of federal contract compliance programs in Dallas. Sysco did not respond to a request for comment. The Labor Department said Sysco “moved quickly to remedy our concerns and has committed to ensuring future compliance with federal hiring and equal employment opportunity laws.”
The Sysco subsidiaries will also be required to provide training to all employees involved in hiring decisions. The alleged discrimination at the two locations took place between 2017 and 2020.. The number of jobs to be offered is based on a calculation that represents how many people should have been hired absent discrimination, according to the Labor Department.
Sysco Corp. employs more than 71,000 people and operates 333 distribution facilities worldwide. The company. Alexandra Skores is the breaking business news reporter covering local companies and economic topics. She's a graduate of the University of Iowa, where she was managing editor of the award-winning student newspaper, The Daily Iowan. Alexandra has previously worked at the Oregonian in Portland, OR and The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, IA.
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