Michigan Seamless Tube

Lyon, MI: (Jun-13-07) The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought charges against Michigan Seamless Tube, a steel tubing company in South Lyon, Michigan, alleging that the company refused to hire black workers. The suit claimed that the company began hiring former employees of the predecessor in November 2002. The EEOC said that during the company startup, 52 of the former employees were hired, and none of them were black. Michigan Seamless continued to hire former employees through 2005, but no African American employees of the previous company were ever hired. The EEOC stated that many white employees who were hired had significantly less experience than the black former employees represented by the agency, and in some cases had actually been trained by the same African American employees who were denied hire.

In a settlement reached, Michigan Seamless agreed to pay $500,000 to settle the racial discrimination lawsuit. The settlement requires Michigan Seamless to recruit black applicants by a variety of methods and provide training on anti-discrimination laws to all its employees, managers, and executive officers. [BLR NEWS: RACIAL HIRING]

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Published on Jun-13-07