Contractor Payouts for DOL Bias Settlements Drop in Trump Year 2

Dell EMC, Humana, and Accenture Federal Services are among the federal contractors that shelled out a combined $16.4 million to settle workplace discrimination allegations with the Labor Department in fiscal year 2018, which includes the second year of the Trump administration.

That’s the third highest collection by the DOL’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs in the agency’s history, according to the office’s acting head and a Bloomberg Law analysis of government data. But it’s still a drop from the record $23.9 million it collected the previous year.

Federal contractors could pony up even more settlement dollars in the current ...