The
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has announced a settlement in an
employment discrimination case brought in the
U.S. District Court in Richmond. The defendant in the lawsuit,
Airgas Carbonic, Inc., is a Pennsylvania based company with a plant in Hopewell, Virginia. The lawsuit accused the company of refusing to promote an employee at its Hopewell plant because he is black. Airgas Carbonic will pay $40,000, revise its anti-discrimination policy and provide training to its supervisors about federal anti-discrimination laws.