The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced yesterday that it had entered into a consent decree with B & H Foto and Electronics Corp. in a case alleging that Hispanic workers were discriminated against in wages, promotions, and health benefit coverage.  According to the EEOC press release, the consent decree requires B & H to:

equalize the wages of Hispanic employees to their non-Hispanic coworkers; and to work with the EEOC in a claims process to distribute $4.3 million in monetary relief to individuals who were paid less, not promoted, or denied benefits because they are Hispanic.

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