American workers may be enjoying the last dog days of summer, but the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission isn’t sitting back and taking it easy. The commission announced this week that it netted $2.8 million from Target Corp. in a settlement payout over the company’s allegedly illegal hiring practices.

The company’s apparent mistakes turned out to be costly. And they may be all too easy for other companies to repeat if in-house counsel don’t look carefully at how legal and human resources are managing their own hiring processes.

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