Long Beach to Pay $1.28M to Settle Lawsuit Alleging Systemic Racial Bias in Employment Practices

Long Beach will pay $1.28 million to settle a lawsuit brought by five current and former city employees who alleged there was systemic racial bias in the city’s hiring, pay and promotion practices.

The lawsuit, filed in June 2021, made sweeping claims against the city, alleging that Black employees were not being properly paid or promoted.

Primarily, the suit set out to prove that five current and former city employees were underpaid or wrongfully passed over based on their ethnicity.

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