ROANOKE, Va. AP – Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has been ordered to pay $925,000 to hundreds of female job applicants at its Virginia plant, the U.S. Labor Department announced Tuesday.

The payment is part of a consent decree approved by an administrative law judge to resolve a lawsuit filed by the Labor Department last year on behalf of some 800 women who were denied jobs at the Danville, Va., plant in 1998 and 1999.