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Article

27 Sep 2001

Author:
Joe Miller, Detroit News

GM bias lawsuit settled for $1.25 million

Automaker to adopt policies to fight discrimination: General Motors Corp. will pay $1.25 million to 16 workers at a Linden, N.J. [New Jersey], assembly plant to settle lawsuits charging the company with sexual and racial discrimination. The automaker also agreed Wednesday to new policies over the next two years that will make it easier for plant workers to report incidents of discrimination, while speeding the investigation of future discrimination claims. The Linden settlement represents the fourth major payout in three years by an automaker involving harassment lawsuits. In 1998, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. paid out $34 million to settle a harassment lawsuit brought on behalf of about 500 women at a Normal, Ill., assembly plant, and Ford reportedly agreed to a seven-figure settlement of a harassment lawsuit at a Chicago stamping plant. In 1999, a female worker at Chrysler's Jefferson North assembly plant won a $21-million lawsuit against the automaker for sexual harassment. Chrysler is appealing the decision.