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July 16, 2006
PHOENIX - Tempe and some city workers have reached a settlement in a racial-discrimination case.
However, Tempe will pay the nine current and former Public Works employees less than the two-point-four (m) million dollars a jury had decided on more than a year ago.
In February 1999, three Public Works employees filed grievances that spurred inquiries by an outside attorney, the state Attorney General's Office and the U-S Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Then, a group filed the federal bias lawsuit in 2002. There were initially 12 plaintiffs, but one died and two others dropped out of the lawsuit.
A federal jury deliberated for four days before deciding on June 30th, 2005, for the nine employees.
The two-point-four (m) million was supposed to be split among the plaintiffs in varying amounts, depending on the amount of perceived discrimination.
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