Another discrimination payout for Coke

ATLANTA - Coca-Cola has agreed to another discrimination payout -- this time $8.1 million to female employees who were underpaid by the company. <br> <br> More than two-thousand women were underpaid by the company, including 980 current and former employees in Coke&#39;s Atlanta-based corporate operations. Those employees -- most of whom had professional-level jobs -- will receive more than half of the total. <br> <br> Another $3.9 million will go to 1,100 current and former female employees throughout North America under the agreement reached yesterday with the U.S. Department of Labor&#39;s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs. <br> <br> The beverage giant now has paid more than $200 million in discrimination cases. Last year, a federal judge approved a $192.5 million settlement in a class-action racial discrimination case involving current and former black employees.