Canon agreed to pay 30 African American applicants plus one Latino man
Under the Canon Business Machines settlement, the company agreed to pay the 30 African American applicants--plus one Latino man and one woman, both of whom were denied engineering jobs--amounts ranging from several hundred dollars to $70,000.
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Canon Business Machines, which employs about 550 people, agreed to the settlement without asking for a hearing or admitting to having discriminated against the applicants.
Canon to Pay $633,000 in Job Bias Probe : Workplace: Settlement with 32 applicants is one of the largest of its kind.
Canon to Pay $633,000 in Job Bias Probe : Workplace: Settlement with 32 applicants is one of the largest of its kind. Company admits no wrongdoing.
Under the Canon Business Machines settlement, the company agreed to pay the 30 African American applicants--plus one Latino man and one woman, both of whom were denied engineering jobs--amounts ranging from several hundred dollars to $70,000.
The allegations against Canon, a maker of copiers and cameras with annual revenues of $16 billion, are the latest example, critics said.
Federal official Bierman said Canon’s case represents the biggest employment discrimination settlement involving a Japanese-owned contractor to the U.S. government in the past two years.
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Canon Business Machines, which employs about 550 people, agreed to the settlement without asking for a hearing or admitting to having discriminated against the applicants.
COSTA MESA — In one of the largest settlements of alleged discrimination in hiring by a federal contractor in California, Canon Business Machines has agreed to pay as much as $633,000 to 30 blacks, a Latino and a white woman who were denied jobs for which they were qualified, federal officials said Wednesday.