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EEOC Settles Background Check Litigation with BMW, But Also Faces Steep Attorneys’ Fees in Freeman Case

Littler on 9/23/2015

After several high-profile setbacks in disparate impact discrimination lawsuits challenging criminal record screening policies, the EEOC has entered into a settlement (consent decree) in one of its few remaining cases, a...more

EEOC Settles Background Check Suit with BMW, Leaves Employers Still Without Guidance

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 9/11/2015

Earlier this week, it was announced that BMW Manufacturing Co. and the EEOC had entered into a Consent Decree, resolving one of three high profile suits over a company's use of background checks in the hire process that had...more

EEOC Loses One, Wins One

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 9/10/2015

The EEOC had a roller coaster week with respect to its aggressive challenges to employers’ background check practices. On September 3, a federal district court in Maryland slapped the EEOC with an attorney’s fees...more

BMW to Pay $1.6 Million and Offer Jobs to Settle Federal Race Discrimination Lawsuit

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 9/9/2015

Company's Criminal Background Policy Disproportionately Affected African-American Logistics Workers, EEOC Charged - GREENVILLE, S.C. - The U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina today entered a consent...more

Employment Law Update: Background Becomes Battleground

Maynard Nexsen on 6/18/2013

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) recently filed federal lawsuits against Dollar General and a BMW manufacturing plant in South Carolina based on the EEOC’s revised guidance concerning use of...more

EEOC Files Suit Against Two Employers for Use of Criminal Background Checks

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 6/11/2013

BMW Fired and Denied Hire to Class of Employees Who Worked Successfully for Years; Dollar General Disproportionately Excluded African Americans From Hire - WASHINGTON - A BMW manufacturing facility in South Carolina,...more

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