Bird’s Eye to Pay $1M in Hiring, Housing Bias Settlement

Bird’s Eye agreed to pay out $1 million to hundreds of female and Hispanic job seekers and workers, according to a settlement agreement posted to the Labor Department’s website Feb. 28.

December 2017 was a busy month for the Midwest region of the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. It negotiated five of the nine agreements posted so far in fiscal year 2018. Three of those five settlements, signed in December, were with food producers or distributors: Bird’s Eye Foods, Hilshire Brands, and US Foods.

The OFCCP’s audit of Bird’s Eye’s Darien, Wis., vegetable production facility ...