« State controls interstate overtime | Main | Personnel files, reputation, and the constitution »
Walgreens: "store assignments based on race"
March 08, 2007 by Ross Runkel at LawMemo
The EEOC claims Walgreens assigns managers, trainees, and pharmacists based on race - assigning them to low-performing stores and to stores in African American communities because of their race.
[Details in EEOC press release]
EEOC St. Louis District Director James R. Neely, Jr., said, "Essentially, Walgreens has made store assignments based on race. This policy has served to restrict the opportunities for advancement of African American employees at Walgreens stores nationwide."
So the EEOC has sued Walgreens in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
A group of current and former African American managers filed a private lawsuit making similar allegations in June 2005. That lawsuit is currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, and the plaintiffs in that case have asked the court to certify it as a class action.
EEOC | NLRB | Supreme Court | Employment Law Blog | Arbitration Blog | Employment Law 101
