{"id":133633,"date":"2024-05-07T11:01:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133633"},"modified":"2024-05-07T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T15:01:15","slug":"convenience-store-chain-with-hundreds-of-outlets-in-6-states-hit-with-discrimination-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133633","title":{"rendered":"Convenience Store Chain With Hundreds Of Outlets In 6 States Hit With Discrimination Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133626\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240419-sheetz-ch-1051-a07968-640x427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240419-sheetz-ch-1051-a07968-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240419-sheetz-ch-1051-a07968-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/240419-sheetz-ch-1051-a07968.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit in Baltimore against Altoona, Pennsylvania-based Sheetz and two subsidary companies, alleging the chain\u2019s longstanding hiring practices have a disproportionate impact on minority applicants and thus run afoul of federal civil rights law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"gmail-\">Sheetz said Thursday that it \u201cdoes not tolerate discrimination of any kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sheetz convenience store chain has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials who allege the company discriminated against minority job applicants. Sheetz Inc., which operates more than 700 stores in six states, discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133635,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133633\/revisions\/133635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}