The privately held, family-run company has more than 23,000 employees and operates convenience stores and gas stations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina.
Sheetz discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials.
A federal agency accused a popular gas station chain of discriminating against Black, Native American and multiracial applicants in its hiring practices. The Sheetz criminal screening process disproportionately screened out applicants from those legally protected groups, the lawsuit announced by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Thursday alleged. The gas station chain screens and rejects applicants who have criminal records, the EEOC said. Those employment practices violate Title...
Trey Songz has settled a lawsuit where he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a 2016 party in Los Angeles. According to Radar Online, the woman sued Songz for $25 million. The settlement amount was undisclosed. “The settlement agreement conditions dismissal of this matter on the satisfactory completion of specified terms that are […] The post Trey Songz Settles Out of $25 Million Lawsuit first appeared on The Source.
Tesla will lay off 693 workers from its Gigafactory in Sparks, according to a notice filed last week with the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation.
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Happy Tuesday! Here's your Tuesday tech drop, the week's top stories at the intersection of tech and politics. Settle down now Ultraconservative news outlet One America News and voting technology company Smartmatic announced Tuesday that they have reached a settlement in the defamation lawsuit the latter filed after hosts and guests on OAN spread lies about Smartmatic software’s being part of a scheme to throw the 2020 election to Joe Biden. The details of the settlement weren’t released. at...
The voting technology company Smartmatic agreed Tuesday to settle its
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A convenience store chain where President Joe Biden stopped for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers […]