Wal-Mart to appeal sex bias case
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Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has been given the right to appeal a US judge's order giving the go-ahead for a huge sex discrimination lawsuit.
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Women employees of Costco Wholesale Corp. filed a sex discrimination class action suit today, alleging that the giant retailer imposes a glass ceiling that prevents women from reaching the top and keeps them in lower paid positions.
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A judge denied class action status for a New York lawsuit claiming Wal-Mart Stores Inc. deprived hourly workers of wages, requiring employees to work "off the clock" before or after their shifts.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said on Thursday it would reopen bidding for its $580-million advertising account just days after the departure of an executive who led the retailer's change of ad agencies.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  said  on Thursday it would reopen bidding for its $580-million  advertising account just days after the departure of an  executive who led the retailer's change of ad agencies.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is being sued in a federal court by a job applicant who says it discriminates against black employees seeking work as truck drivers, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
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(InfoWorld) - EMC could face a sexual discrimination class action lawsuit if a judge opens an existing case up to other female EMC workers, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Two women filed a lawsuit against the IT giant in 2004, alleging discrimination and harassment. On Monday, a judge for the U.S. District Court in Northern Illinois will hear arguments about whether to allow other women who worked in sales at EMC from 2001 to 2004 to join the suit, according to the Journal. In a letter posted to EMC's Web site, Joe Tucci, the company's chairman, president, and CEO strongly denied that discrimination or harassment happened or continue to occur at the company. "EMC has long been committed to maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment, with significant opportunities for every employee to succeed and grow," he wrote. He said that during the four years covered by the case, women sales reps at the company in the U.S. earned, on average, more than their male counterparts. Since 2001, the number of women at the vice president and senior vice president levels has more than doubled, and the number of women at the director level has nearly tripled, he wrote. However, the suit filed by former sales representatives Tami Remien and Debra Fletcher paints a very different picture. At the time they filed the suit, they said just one of EMC's most senior executives was a woman and that the Chicago sales office of 30 had at most six women. Remien's managers, according to the suit, denied her the engineering and managerial support that her male counterparts received, took accounts that she had begun selling products to and gave them to less successful male sales people, and was told that she couldn't take on certain accounts because she didn't tolerate strip clubs, hunt, fish, drink, or smoke. She claims that when she complained to human resources, her managers retaliated by taking away essentially all of her accounts and continued to deny her support. She also claims that her boss often shouted gender-based obscenities at her and called her stupid. Fletcher had similar experiences under the same manager. She also once made a large sale but her commission was given to a male co-worker because he had a family, according to the suit. One account was taken away from her after she was falsely accused of having a sexual relationship with the client, the suit claims. Both women were let go from their jobs at EMC after being left with no accounts or with accounts that didn't generate revenue. Twelve additional sex discrimination cases have been filed against EMC since 2001, according to the Journal's article.
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Thomas Coughlin, the former Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executive convicted of stealing from the company, may have to go to prison after an appeals court said his house-arrest sentence was too lenient.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT.N, the  world's biggest retailer, launched a national advertising  campaign on Thursday to repair an image tarnished by  allegations that it discriminates in hiring and promotions and  drives smaller rivals out of business.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is being sued in  a federal court by a job applicant who says it discriminates  against black employees seeking work as truck drivers,  according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., faced with   accusations it provides inadequate health care for more than a   million U.S. employees, plans to announce a major health care   initiative on Thursday.
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A case alleging Wal-Mart Stores Inc . illegally docked workers' wages and refused to pay overtime to tens of thousands of employees in Massachusetts goes to trial next month, but a judge recently ruled that the workers couldn't sue over missed meal breaks.
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A U.S. watchdog group has called on Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to put a stop to what it says is worker abuse at a factory in the Philippines that makes apparel for the retailer.
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The largest sexual discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history moved forward against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday when a federal appeals court approved class-action status for a group of women who claim the retailer was biased in pay and promotion.
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A former tire plant employee is asking the Supreme Court to uphold a jury verdict in her pay discrimination lawsuit in a case that employers and civil rights groups are watching closely.
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Wal-Mart has been sued in federal court by a man who claims the world's largest retailer discriminates against blacks in 12 Southern states from seeking truck-driving jobs.
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The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , will pay &#36;135,540 to settle charges it violated child labor laws in three states, The New York Times reported on Saturday.