Layoffs



Layoffs

Introduction

Pepsi Beverages (Pepsi), formerly known as Pepsi Bottling Group which is the leading beverage company is charged with the violation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The company has been ordered to pay the penalty amounting $3.13 million for the settlement of the case which involved the issue of hiring of discrimination of the African American workers. The EEOC claimed that the Pepsi adopted the discriminatory policy of not hiring the workers with the arrest records; therefore the company excluded the 300 black applicants from the proper recruitment channel. The EEOC found that the background check policy of the ...