Rosemount Inc. in Chanhassen agreed to turn over affirmative action employment records to the U.S. Labor Department, as required for a federal contractor, after 17 months of legal wrangling.
The Labor Department filed a lawsuit on Sept. 9 after first directing the company in July 2021 to turn in the required records, which are used for equal employment audits to make sure federal contractors are following hiring laws. The department said it had received no response from the company after repeated requests for information.
Rosemount Inc. — a subsidiary of the $18 billion St. Louis-based Emerson Electric Co. — was at risk of losing its federal contracts if it did not settle the issue. The company agreed to cooperate with the government as part of a consent decree agreement filed this week.
"Generally speaking [companies] just comply with the audit, which is what they are required to do as a federal contractor. So the fact that we had to go through all of these steps to look at their hiring program is unusual," said Labor Department spokeswoman Rhonda Burke.
In a statement, Emerson blamed its delay in sending documents to an "administrative oversight" that has since been resolved.
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