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Preferred Labor to pay $250,000 in bias suit

July 10, 2009

Preferred Labor LLC agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced Thursday. The company, which did business as Preferred People Staffing, agreed to the settlement after it sold its day labor business to another firm.

The North Carolina-based company restricted women to only certain work assignments and accepted discriminatory requests from customers to send only male workers at its location in Worcester MA, according to the EEOC. The company also retaliated against one woman for complaining.