A legal nonprofit filed a federal civil rights complaint against Mars Inc. on Wednesday, alleging that the chocolate company blatantly discriminates against race, sex, and national origin in its hiring, promotion, and training practices.
America First Legal (AFL), a Washington-based nonprofit, filed the complaint (pdf) with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), asking the Commission to “investigate Mars’s systemic and discriminatory hiring, promotion, and job-training employment practices.”
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it illegal for employers to impose hiring quotas that favor applicants based on an ‘individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.’ Yet Mars does just that, openly touting its discriminatory quota ‘to increase racial minority representation among management in its U.S.-based consumer-packaged goods businesses by forty percent,’” the AFL stated….