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BMW Settles U.S. Bias Lawsuit
BMW Manufacturing Co. has agreed to pay a $1.6 million fine and offer to rehire about 69 former black employees who were denied access to the company's SUV factory in Spartanburg, S.C.
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BMW Manufacturing Co. has agreed to pay a $1.6 million fine and offer to rehire about 69 former black employees who were denied access to the company's SUV factory in Spartanburg, S.C.
The deal with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settles the agency's seven-year-old charge that BMW used criminal background checks to unfairly single out black workers at a logistics firm that helped staff the Spartanburg plant.
EEOC said 80% of those denied access were black. The agency's complaint says BMW's policy was illegal because it failed to assess the individual nature, gravity or age of a criminal offense or the employee's current position in banning workers from its facility.
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