Sex Discrimination: Walmart Lawsuit

Sex Discrimination: Walmart Lawsuit

Introduction

The American company Wal-Mart - the largest retailer in the world - has been at the center of a scandal about sex discrimination. The U.S. Supreme Court began its consideration of a class action filed on behalf of 1.6 million employees of the company, who claim that they are paid less and promoted through the ranks less than male colleagues.

Moral Complaints

This story began 13 years ago: Betty Dukes, a common seller of Wal-Mart store in Pittsburg, California a small town east of San Francisco, came with a lunch break and got a scolding from the manager, allegedly for being late. It was a shame: it was late, and if, then for a moment. But her male colleagues were late on a regular basis, but they never did for it was not. The men who worked in the store are lesser, but they, monitoring, Betty, get all the benefits: indulgence and discipline, and salary increases and promotion to managerial positions. Women were abuse, injustice, dirty jokes and harassment.

Betty decided to fight against injustice and turned to the lawyer. The lawyer has teamed up with colleagues in other cities who have been in the hands of the similar claims of female employees Wal-Mart. So assembled, "magnificent seven" plaintiffs who challenged the famous retailer. And then began a loud lawsuit that went to the authority of the court, when faced with constant procedural obstacles, delays, and translations. But in the coming months in the infinite case still must be put an end: The Supreme Court (SC) The U.S. has already held preliminary hearings on the case, "Dukes v. Wal-Mart.

Seven brave

For 13 years, the plaintiff has made ??great: four stages of the courts ruled in their favor, moreover, that the "magnificent seven" claimed the right to sue on behalf of all women working in the Wal-Mart from 1998 to the present day. There had accumulated nearly 1.6 million people. Guide Wal-Mart, hired a strong staff of lawyers, and does not give up: his lawyers try to prove that a class action suit (class-action suit) is not authorized, let, say, suing for himself and each will deal with the specific facts of discrimination if they were (Boatright, 2009).

Yet U.S. courts annually to consider the collective claims of women subjected to gender discrimination. Most of these cases settled out of court. But it's Wal-Mart much bigger, hence the huge public outcry ...