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Convenience store chain with hundreds of outlets in 6 states hit with discrimination lawsuit
AP ^ | 04 18 2024 | MICHAEL RUBINKAM

Posted on 04/21/2024 5:54:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

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 a criminal background check, according to U.S. officials.

President Joe Biden stopped by a Sheetz for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed suit in Baltimore against Altoona, Pennsylvania-based Sheetz and two subsidary companies, alleging the chain’s longstanding hiring practices have a disproportionate impact on minority applicants and thus run afoul of federal civil rights law.

Sheetz said Thursday that it “does not tolerate discrimination of any kind.”

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Federal officials said they do not allege Sheetz was motivated by racial animus, but take issue with the way the chain uses criminal background checks to screen job seekers.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: biden; deepstate; discrimination; fedmob; shakedown; sheetz; uniparty
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Biden visited Sheetz the day before the suit was announced.

Watch: Biden Visits Sheetz Gas Station, Customers Sit And Watch Photo-Op With Employees

1 posted on 04/21/2024 5:54:25 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4232727/posts

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2 posted on 04/21/2024 5:56:28 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Obviously “Sheetz” is a KKK reference, therefore racist. /s


3 posted on 04/21/2024 5:57:47 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Nothing says "Democracy" like throwing your opponents in jail.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I hope Sheetz chooses to spend the money needed to fight this.

Why not In-N-Out?

Maybe because they certainly have the money to fight.


4 posted on 04/21/2024 5:58:04 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: yesthatjallen
The Memphis police department will hire you with felony assault, drug distribution, gun, and robbery convictions to be a police officer. No testing anymore either.

As my county sheriff neighbor says, "you do realize the same police you are calling 911 for, are the same people you are calling 911 on, don't you?"

The third world death spiral in Memphis began when AC Wharton was not re-elected. (He was very pro business and the jobs it brings, vs. The free stuff gimme dats voters)

5 posted on 04/21/2024 6:02:29 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Uniparty Deepstate: “You will hire criminals or we will commit crimes against you!”


6 posted on 04/21/2024 6:04:38 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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To: yesthatjallen

And this:

Biden Regime Sues Sheetz Convenience Stores for Discrimination ONE DAY After Old Joe’s Embarrassing Botched Photo Op at a Sheetz Gas Station

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/biden-regime-sues-sheetz-convenience-stores-discrimination-one/


7 posted on 04/21/2024 6:06:14 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: yesthatjallen

Ghetto lottery...


8 posted on 04/21/2024 6:09:09 PM PDT by TallahasseeConservative (Isaiah 40:31)
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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.

Bullshit.

I regularly visit Sheetz stores. Plenty of black people working there. They don't appear to be criminals. And that's a good thing.

9 posted on 04/21/2024 6:10:55 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: yesthatjallen

Why would anyone invest or own a business with all the govt intrusion?


10 posted on 04/21/2024 6:43:46 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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but take issue with the way the chain uses criminal background checks to screen job seekers.

The FBI does the same thing, or perhaps it is a resume enhancement today?

11 posted on 04/21/2024 6:45:15 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

12 posted on 04/21/2024 7:04:29 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Sheetz was Karen Kentral during the COVID re-openings.


13 posted on 04/21/2024 7:05:31 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Probably because their name triggered some whacko into thinking it meant (white) sheets...


14 posted on 04/21/2024 8:20:43 PM PDT by bigbob
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Ain’t that the Sheetz?


15 posted on 04/21/2024 8:34:43 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The phone, the TV and the news of the world got in the house like a pigeon from hell)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

(Biden Regime Sues Sheetz Convenience Stores for Discrimination ONE DAY After Old Joe’s Embarrassing Botched Photo Op at a Sheetz Gas Station)

D’oh!!


16 posted on 04/21/2024 9:17:22 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: blackdog
The Memphis police department will hire you with felony assault, drug distribution, gun, and robbery convictions to be a police officer. No testing anymore either.

We all know what that leads to.

Regards,

17 posted on 04/21/2024 10:42:21 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: TallahasseeConservative

Hiring the inside guy


18 posted on 04/22/2024 1:06:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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“Biden visited Sheetz the day before the suit was announced.”

All orchestrated and pre-planned by the Obama goons, as usual. And how dare Sheetz not want to hire criminals and reprobates like the federal government does and insists upon doing. Who do they think they are? Where do they think they are? Living and doing business in a free country, still? Silly Sheetz.


19 posted on 04/22/2024 1:22:07 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Mariner

Maybe some organization fighting crazy laws will help them take this up to the USSC?


20 posted on 04/22/2024 1:28:17 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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