Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Despite Setback, Plaintiffs to Pursue WalMart Cases
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
http://www.
nytimes.
com/2011/06/21/business/21walmart.
html?_r=1
Wal-Mart has spent 10 years fighting claims that it discriminated...
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Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: Despite Setback, Plaintiffs to Pursue WalMart Cases
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
http://www.
nytimes.
com/2011/06/21/business/21walmart.
html?_r=1
Wal-Mart has spent 10 years fighting claims that it discriminated against female
employees, and by many accounts, it has improved its hiring and promotion policies for
women during those years.
Monday’s Supreme Court victory for Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, may not mean
the end to litigation over discrimination claims, however.
Even though the company says
it has substantially increased the percentages of women in managerial positions, the
plaintiffs in the longstanding case said the company should expect several more years of
challenges to its employment practices.
The Supreme Court decision said that up to 1.
5 million women who worked at Wal-Mart
did not have enough in common to constitute a class in a class-action suit.
The decision
did not address whether Wal-Mart had discriminated a
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