Wal-Mart Faces Largest Gender Bias Suit
Wal-Mart is facing billions in losses, as a sexual discrimination suit will proceed as a class-action suit.
NEW YORK (
) --
Wal-Mart
(WMT) - Get Report
is entwined it what could be the largest sexual discrimination class-action lawsuit in U.S. history.
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that a lawsuit brought by female Wal-Mart employees can go to trial, which could result in billions of dollars in losses for the discount giant.
The workers are alleging that Wal-Mart pays women less than men for the same jobs and that female employees receive fewer promotions.
The suit was first filed in a federal court in San Francisco in 2001. Since then Wal-Mart has lost two rulings in trial court and another in the appeals court in 2007.
-- Reported by Jeanine Poggi in New York.
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