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Vermont Grocery Firm Fined for Age Discrimination Policies.(Originated from The Boston Globe)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 1997 by Lewis, Diane E.
May 13--A Vermont wholesale grocery firm was ordered to pay $910,000 to settle an age discrimination suit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of dozens of applicants who were turned down for work at the grocer because they were more than 40.
The company, C&S Groceries of Brattleboro, supplies produce to 1,200 stores in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.
C&S became the focus of a class-action suit several months after it declined to hire a 46-year-old man who had applied for work as a grocery picker at the company's warehouse.
"This is a case of blatant discrimination," Spencer H. Lewis Jr., director of the EEOC's New York district, said yesterday. "Both the statistics and the individual stories...
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