Wal-Mart Sex Discrimination Case to Proceed to Trial
A federal appeals court ruled this week that Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest private employer, must face a sex discrimination class-action lawsuit alleging that female employees were discriminated against in both pay and promotions.
The lawsuit claims that over 1.5 million current and former female employees earned less than men and were bypassed for promotions.
Wal-Mart argued that conventional rules of class actions should not apply in this case because its 3,400 stores operated like independent businesses, and that the company did not have a policy of discriminating against women.
This ruling expanded the suit, originally filed by six women, to include all women who worked at Wal-Mart stores from December 1998 to the present, excluding upper management and pharmacy workers.
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