Food Distributor Settles Federal Charges It Subjected Women to Sex-based Discrimination in Hiring and Job Assignments
INDIANAPOLIS —Kenneth O. Lester Company, Inc., doing business as PFG Customized Distribution – Indiana, will pay $709,971 in monetary relief and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, from at least 2018, PFG Customized Distribution refused to hire female job applicants for order selector positions because of their sex at its Kendallville, Indiana warehouse. The EEOC further charged that hiring officials, other management and supervisory employees, human resources personnel, and recruiters expressly stated sex-based criteria for the order-selector position, including making statements to female applicants that the company prefers to hire men as order selectors.
The EEOC also asserted that the company discriminatorily assigned females to the small-wares section of the warehouse, where they had less earning potential.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits using sex-based criteria in employment. The EEOC filed the lawsuit (EEOC v. Kenneth O. Lester Company, Inc. d/b/a PFG Customized Distribution – Indiana, Case No. 1:22-cv-329-HAB) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana after first attempting to reach a...
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