000263 Tyson Settles Discrimination ComplaintsJanuary 29, 2000Washington - Petroleum refiner Sunoco Inc. and Tyson Foods Inc. will pay workers to settle discrimination complaints, the Labor Department said. Tyson Foods will pay $210,000 in back pay and interest to 859 women and $20,000 to 10 blacks who were not hired at the company's Forest, Miss., poultry plant. The government said it had found evidence of hiring discrimination at the plant between Jan. 1, 1996, and June 30, 1997. Tyson also has offered the rejected applicants jobs, which 183 have taken. Both companies are federal government contractors and the complaints against them stemmed from reviews of their personnel policies by the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which enforces equal employment opportunity, nondiscrimination and affirmative action rules.
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