Federal Contractor Pays $1.5M for Bias

Statistical survey firm Westat, a federal contractor, will pay $1.5 million to settle claims it failed to give equal employment opportunities to thousands of minorities and women in eight states. The Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs said Wednesday it discovered that the Rockville, Md.-based company used a selection process that "systematically discriminated" against 2,153 African American, 825 Asian American and 35 Hispanic applicants from Oct. 1, 2008, to Sept.



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