Time Warner Bias Settlement Pauses DOL Audits for 5 Years (1)

Time Warner Cable became the latest federal contractor to get a five-year break from Labor Department anti-discrimination audits, as part of a $745,000 settlement resolving claims of race- and gender-based hiring bias in North Carolina and South Carolina.

The telecommunications company allegedly discriminated against “African Americans and women applying for sales representative, direct sales trainee and inbound telesales positions,” the Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs said in a statement. The alleged bias occurred at Time Warner Cable’s locations in Charlotte and Morrisville, N.C., and West Columbia, S.C.

More than 2,800 individuals allegedly were discriminated against, with the ...