Historic sex bias case against Wal-Mart advances
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A federal appeals court gave the green light for the largest sex discrimination case in US history to proceed against giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores.
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The liberal coterie is profiting by writing about the most successful company in this country's history (&quot;How women pay for Wal-Mart's success,&quot; Oct. 31).
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A Middlesex Superior Court judge in Cambridge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Corp. by workers at its North Attleborough store. The order by Judge Ernest B. Murphy allows more than 55,000 workers nationwide to seek redress as a group, according to San Francisco lawyer Carolyn Beasley Burton, who represents the plaintiffs. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart managers ...
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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.
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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. -- Lilly M. Ledbetter says she almost stopped breathing when she heard her name called that day, her eight-year battle over alleged pay discrimination finally reaching the ultimate legal forum, the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. paid bonuses to store managers that encouraged them to limit employee meal and rest breaks, a human resources consultant testified at a trial over claims the company cheated workers in Pennsylvania.
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PANAMA CITY -- An appeals court has refused to reinstate class-action status for a lawsuit that sought to represent 230,000 Wal-Mart employees across Florida over allegations the company forced many of them to work without pay during breaks and after hours
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s largest retailer, said sales at US stores open at least a year are rising within its forecast, with strongest sales coming from bedding and women&#39;s clothing.
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An assistant manager at Costco Wholesale accused the company of discriminating against female workers by failing to promote as many as 650 women to high-paying management jobs.
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A sexual-discrimination lawsuit against EMC could be opened up to other female workers.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co. S.N, was sued  this week by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,  which said the largest U.S. department store chain illegally  fired a store manager because he was black.
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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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DAVENPORT, Iowa - A woman's fall in a puddle of vomit has resulted in a lawsuit against Wal-Mart. June Medema, slipped in the vomit at a Davenport Wal-Mart on June 13, 2005, according to the lawsuit, filed by Medema and her husband, James, in Scott County District Court earlier this month.
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A top Merrill Lynch official is due to  testify on Wednesday over a 7.5 million pound ($13.4 million)  sex discrimination lawsuit brought against the U.S.-based  investment bank by former executive Stephanie Villalba.
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The lawyers behind a  record-setting sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores  on Tuesday filed a new lawsuit against Costco Wholesale Corp.  claiming it barred women from top store management jobs.
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Flag raised over strip club bonding A sex-discrimination lawsuit by two former female EMC employees alleges "locker-room" antics within the firm's sales team in Chicago, detailing company-paid visits to strip clubs, demeaning sexual remarks, and a general failing to hire and promote women.â¦
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Wal-Mart amasses more data about the products it sells and its shoppers' buying habits than anyone else, and some privacy advocates worry about the potential for abuse.