Wal-Mart asks Supreme Court to block giant gender bias lawsuit

Submitted by anthony on Thu, 2010-08-26 19:53

Article here. Excerpt:

'Retail giant Wal-Mart on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling allowing more than 1.5 million women employees of the company to join together in what would become the largest class-action employment lawsuit in history.

The lawsuit filed by six women in 2001 charges that Wal-Mart engaged in gender discrimination by paying female employees less than men, and in passing women over for promotions that went to men. It seeks billions of dollars in damages.

Gender discrimination lawsuits are usually litigated one employee at a time. But courts may allow plaintiffs who were harmed under similar circumstances by the same person or company to join together in a common class of litigants to pursue their lawsuit.'

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Walmart might as well just send the money.
No way will they allow this to be over turned....even though women are NOT WORTH as much as men for any given job - because they simply miss too much work and won't put in the hours necessary.

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Sat, 2010-08-28 02:19