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December 7, 2016

Job-placement firm sued for racial bias

CHICAGO (AP) — A national job-placement company systematically discriminated against blacks in favor of Hispanic workers to comply with racially based criteria of some clients looking for employees, according to allegations in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of several African-Americans.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, alleges that Personnel Staffing Group LLC used code words to distinguish races and to disguise racially guided decisions, including by using the Spanish word for “bilinguals” to refer to Hispanics.


 
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