No Such Thing as a Man's Job
By Lucy Rose Davidoff on 02/04/2011 @ 02:00 PM
On February 3rd, 2011 the US Department of Labor settled a four-year-long gender discrimination case, representing 970 women, with Green Bay Dressed Beef LLC. Green Bay Dressed Beef LLC is a federal contractor and provides beef products to the American military as well as to the federal school lunch program. An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program (OFCCP) found that women had been rejected and passed over for general labor positions in the company’s plants in 2006 and 2007.
“This is the 21st century in the United States of America. There is no such thing as a ‘man’s job,’” said Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. Not only will Green Bay Dressed Beef LLC pay $1.65 million in back wages, interest and benefits to the over 970 women affected by the company’s unfair and illegal labor practices, but Green Bay Dressed Beef LLC will also be offering 248 positions of employment to the women. Sixty of the women from the original case have already been hired. “I am so pleased that my department has been able to work out a resolution with Green Bay Dressed Beef, and that the settlement not only compensates the victims of discrimination but also provides jobs for many of these women.”
As a federal contractor, Green Bay Dressed Beef LLC violated three separate anti-discrimination laws: Executive Order 11246, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974. These three laws require that those doing business with the federal government do not discriminate in employment on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.
For more information on the case visit: http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/ofccp/OFCCP20110146.htm
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