by Bob Allen | May 17, 2005 | News
A food and facilities-management company, with clients including a Southern Baptist seminary, agreed to pay $80 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it systematically denied promotions to black managers. Sodexho, Inc., agreed April 27 to settlement of a class-action...
by Bob Allen | Apr 27, 2005 | News
Southern Seminary’s new vendor for campus maintenance boasts on its Web site that “diversity is at the heart of everything we do.” But according to a class-action lawsuit headed for trial this week, that commitment applies only to some jobs. The...
by Bob Allen | Apr 6, 2005 | News
The private contractor taking over maintenance work at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has hired about 60 percent of the former seminary employees who took care of its facilities, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Sunday. Seminary spokesman Lawrence Smith...
by Bob Allen | Mar 31, 2005 | News
Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler says there is irony but no inconsistency in the fact that the conservative seminary is outsourcing its maintenance to a company that is friendly to homosexuals, according to a Louisville newspaper. Courier-Journal columnist...
by Bob Allen | Mar 21, 2005 | News
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has outsourced maintenance of its Louisville, Ky., campus to a company recognized for efforts to increase diversity, including providing domestic partner benefits and celebrating Gay Pride Month on the company calendar. The...