Target Corp. agreed to pay more than $500,000 to four black management applicants who claimed they were victims of racial discrimination, as part of a settlement of a 6-year-old lawsuit.
Under the consent decree, Target agreed to pay a total of $510,000 to the four black applicants – Kalisha White, Ralpheal Edgeston Brown, Cherise Brown Easley and James Daniels, Jr. – who were denied jobs as assistant store managers in 2000 and 2001.
The Minneapolis-based retailer will also revise its policies for retaining documents, to provide supervisors with training on employment discrimination and record-keeping, to report on its hiring decisions and to post a notice about the decree for employees in its stores and offices in the affected district.