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Target Settles Decade-Old Racial Hiring Lawsuit
- Minneapolis Star Tribune, Friday, April 6, 2018 8:12 AM
Target Corp. agreed to pay $3.7 million to settle a potential class-action lawsuit over allegations that its use of criminal background checks in the hiring process disproportionately kept African-American and Latino applicants from getting a job. Eligible African-American and Latino applicants who, since May 2006, were denied employment from a Target store due to a criminal-background check will be eligible for “priority hiring.”
