MVP Staffing, Clients Will Pay to End ‘Racial Preference’ Suit

Nationwide staffing agency MVP and five of its clients have agreed to pay $588,261 to settle allegations that MVP honored the clients’ coded requests not to refer blacks for temporary jobs, resulting in discrimination against approximately 3,000 workers, Illinois federal court records show.

Antwoin Hunt and four other black men filed the proposed class action on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated workers in December 2016 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. They accused Personnel Staffing Group LLC, which does business as MVP, and Segerdahl Corp., Mercury Plastics Inc., The Penray Companies, Advertising Resources ...