"Food distribution company will pay $3.6 million to settle sex discrimination allegations", 23 Oct 2018

Cleveland-based Sherwood Food Distributors LLC has agreed to pay $3.6 million and offer 150 jobs to those involved in a class sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the federal government.  According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Agency (EEOC), as far back as 2009, Sherwood refused to hire female applicants for entry-level positions at its Cleveland and Detroit warehouses because of their gender.  The EEOC also said Sherwood did not preserve records relating to the its discriminatory hiring practices...The five-year consent decree settling the suit also includes that the company establish hiring goals designed to increase females hired for entry-level warehouse positions and to produce and forward electronic data regarding the number of females hired to the EEOC...