NEW BRAUNFELS, TX – The U.S. Department of Labor has entered into an early resolution conciliation agreement with Sysco Central Texas Inc. to resolve alleged hiring discrimination against 370 female and Black job applicants at the federal contractor’s New Braunfels warehouse distribution center.
The conciliation agreement follows a routine compliance evaluation by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs that alleged – from Jan. 5, 2018, through Feb. 17, 2020 – Sysco Central Texas Inc. discriminated against 180 female applicants and 190 Black male applicants, when hiring for outbound selector positions. Executive Order 11246 prohibits federal contractors from discriminating in employment –based race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
As part of the agreement, the employer paid $154,000 in back wages to the affected applicants and agreed to extend job opportunities to eight female and seven Black applicants not selected for the outbound selector position. It will also provide training to all company employees involved in hiring decisions, and will review and revise its recruitment processes to prevent discrimination.
“Sysco Central Texas cooperated with the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve these matters and are taking steps to prevent similar issues from happening again,” said Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Southwest Regional Director Melissa Speer in Dallas. “Sysco Central Texas took...
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