As part of an effort to “make whole” firefighter candidates subjected to discrimination in hiring, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis has ordered the city to pay the interest that would have accrued on the pension contributions of some black and Latino firefighters had they been hired earlier.
The order comes as part of the U.S. Justice Department and Vulcan Society of Black Firefighters’ hiring-discrimination lawsuit against the FDNY, which Mayor de Blasio settled a year ago for $98 million in back pay and benefits to minority firefighter candidates.
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