Chicago OKs Bias Case Awards
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WASHINGTON — The city of Chicago has agreed to pay more than $9 million in back-pay awards to settle a discrimination case involving 729 women, blacks and Latinos on the Chicago police force, the Justice Department announced today.
The proposed consent decree, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, would require the city to establish an interest-bearing back-pay fund of $9.2 million for reimbursements of awards to discrimination victims. The city also would adjust seniority dates for those victims. The decree resolves an employment-discrimination suit filed in 1973 alleging a pattern and practice of discrimination by Chicago.
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