Alabama Car Wash to Clean Out Alleged Race Bias, Pay $225K (2)

Car Wash Headquarters Inc. will pay $225,000 and revise its promotions policy to end a lawsuit by the federal government alleging repeated race discrimination at the company’s Birmingham, Ala., facility.

The Tucson, Ariz.-based company, which does business nationally as Mister Car Wash and Mister Hotshine, failed to promote Antonio Purdom and a group of other employees in Birmingham into supervisory positions because they’re black, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged in its March 2017 lawsuit. Less qualified or unqualified white workers were promoted instead, and black employees were sometimes forced to train them, furthering the bias, the EEOC said. ...