Outback Steakhouse agrees to pay $19 million to settle sex discrimination
On Tuesday, December 29, 2009, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that Outback Steakhouse agreed to pay $19 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging sex discrimination against thousands of women at hundreds of corporately-owned restaurants.
A federal judge has approved a $1.25 billion settlement in a decades-old discrimination case by black farmers, clearing the way for them to seek compensation from the US Department of Agriculture for being left out of farm aid programs.