Wal-Mart Being Sued In Sex Bias Case - By 2 Million Women

[matcom]

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The biggest sexual discrimination case in U.S. history advanced against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday when a top court ruled that more than a million women could join a suit charging bias in pay and promotions.

The plaintiffs estimate they could win billions of dollars in lost pay and damages and that as many as two million women who have worked for Wal-Mart in its U.S. stores since 1998 could join a class-action lawsuit.

"It is time for Wal-Mart to face the music," Brad Seligman, a lawyer for The Impact Fund, a nonprofit group in Berkeley, California representing the female plaintiffs, told reporters.

"Two courts now have ruled that Wal-Mart is going to have to face a jury ... We fully expect Wal-Mart to keep appealing but we're very confident now that two courts have upheld this (class) certification," he said.

Lead plaintiff Betty Dukes, 56, who works as a greeter at a Wal-Mart east of San Francisco, said she had let out a cheer while at work. "I am absolutely overjoyed," Dukes said.

The 2-1 ruling by the three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals took no position on Dukes's claims, stressing the decision only affirmed a lower court ruling to certify the case as a class action against the world's largest retailer.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-07T004622Z_01_N06255418_RTRUKOC_0_US-WALMART-CLASSACTION.xml&rpc=92

[idgiehkt]

1. wow

I thought this happened once before. Is this the same case or a different one?

[Hugin]

2. It's probably the same one...

Note where it says 'advances' up above.

These things take forever.

[ohiosmith]

3. 2,000,000! Well that beats the class action paternity suit against me.

[Broken_Hero]

4. ..............

:spray:

[eyepaddle]

5. I wonder if I could join the suit....

I'm not a woman, I've never worked for Wal Mart--and I don't even want any money. I just wanna get a few digs in!

[underpants]

6. Great! Now I'll never be greeted at Walmart

(walks away sad)

Seriously I never have. I can't remember the last time I even went into one but I was never greeted, I even made sure there was eye contact and at the last second *POOF* no "Hi" or anything.

[LaraMN]

7. Heh. I worked at Wal-Mart in 1998.

Although I can't say that my particular store noticeably treated women, specifically, poorly; rather, they pretty much treated ALL their employees like crap.

[idgiehkt]

9. my experience also

and then expected us to stand up and do cheers about working part-time for low wages and no benefits.

[Blue-Jay]

8. Meh. Those broads are always complaining about something.

:yoiks: