Sherwood Food Agrees to Pay $3.6M to End EEOC Hiring Bias Case

Sherwood Food Distributors and the EEOC reached a tentative $3.6 million settlement that would resolve the agency’s hiring bias allegations on behalf of a class of women.

The Detroit-based regional food products distributor also would be required to meet a 15 percent hiring goal for women seeking entry-level warehouse worker positions at the company’s Detroit and Cleveland facilities that would be phased in over the five-year term of the proposed pact. It also would have to offer work by the end of that five-year period to no fewer than 150 women who previously applied for such jobs.

The Equal Employment ...