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7 February 2007
Wal-Mart Faces Sex Bias Case
A top court has ruled Wal-Mart will face a lawsuit claiming pay
discrimination against more than a million female US employees.
In what may be the biggest sexual discrimination case in US history
the he San Francisco court upheld a 2004 ruling giving the lawsuit
class action status, sanctioning claims from up to 2 million current
and former staff.
Should they win the case, the plaintiffs could win pay damages
worth billions of dollars. "It is time for Wal-Mart to face
the music," said Brad Seligman, a lawyer for The Impact Fund,
a nonprofit group in Berkeley, California representing the female
plaintiffs. "No amount of PR, of spin, of procedural dodges
can avoid the day in court that is coming."
The original lawsuit was filed in 2001 by six women who either
worked for Wal-Mart or had done so in the past.
The retail giant has said it did not have a policy discriminating
against women.
Wal-Mart said it would appeal against the verdict of the three-judge
panel, which ruled 2 to 1 in favor of the plaintiffs.
In 2006 a court ordered Wal-Mart to pay at least $78m in compensation
to workers after it was found that the retail giant had broken
the law by not paying staff for working during breaks.
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