BALL CORP
BALL
Consumer Discretionary
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Ball Corporation settled with the SEC in 2011 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by making improper payments to foreign officials in Argentina and China and agreed to pay $300,000 in disgorgement and penalties.
Ball Container LLC, a subsidiary of Ball Corporation, entered a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) in October 2024 to pay $309,000 in back wages and interest for race-based hiring discrimination at its beverage manufacturing facility in Rome, Georgia. The OFCCP's compliance review found that between February 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021, Ball Container discriminated against 192 Black applicants for production technician positions — a systematic failure to hire qualified Black candidates at a single facility over a one-year period. The conduct violated Executive Order 11246, which prohibits federal contractors from discriminating in employment based on race. In addition to back pay, Ball Container agreed to extend four job offers to eligible class members when positions become available.
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