Coca-Cola Agrees to Pay $475,000 to Settle OFCCP’s Claims for 1,300 Female Applicants

A Coca-Cola bottler in Oklahoma has entered into a $475,000 conciliation agreement with the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to settle agency allegations that the company discriminated against a class of 1,293 female applicants, the DOL announced Sept. 4.

According to the Labor Department, the OFCCP in June 2009 conducted a compliance review of Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Co.'s hiring practices at its bottling and distribution facility in Oklahoma City.

The OFCCP concluded that female applicants “were much less likely to be hired than similarly situated male applicants” for merchandiser, driver, driver trainee, production and warehouse positions ...