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Eli Lilly has agreed to pay $2.4 million to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to settle a lawsuit the agency filed, claiming that the pharma giant discriminated against older job candidates by changing its hiring preferences in 2017 to recruit more millennials.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Monday against Eli Lilly and Co. alleging the company refused to hire older workers for sales representative positions.