The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a $1.8 million settlement with nine facilities of G&K Services, including one in Pleasant Hill, to remedy systemic hiring and pay discrimination violations. G&K Services, which provides work uniforms, has several federal contracts, which requires the company to adhere to federal nondiscrimination and affirmative action provisions. The company denies the violations but agreed to pay affected workers and applicants and take other actions to remedy individual workers’ jobs. The Labor Department said G&K disproportionately assigned female employees to lower-paying jobs and those violations were found in compliance evaluations between 2011 and 2015.