United Parcel Service of America Inc. has agreed to pay about $12.1 million to settle a racial discrimination suit.
The suit alleged that UPS was inadequately informing black part-time workers of procedures and opportunities for advancement, said Norman Black, spokesman for the closely held Atlanta-based express carrier and package delivery company.
The bulk of the settlement is $8.2 million being offered to about 12,000 current and former part-time black workers in the company’s Northwest and Pacific regions, UPS said in a statement.
James Finberg, attorney for the workers, said the deal also includes $476,000 to be paid to seven black full-time workers, $150,500 to seven part-time employees who were the representative plaintiffs in the suit and about $3.3 million in lawyers’ fees and other costs.
Finberg said final court approval of the settlement is pending.
