Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Three Tennessee women workers claim discrimination by Wal-Mart.


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The AP (10/3) reports, "Three Tennessee women sued Wal-Mart Inc. on Tuesday claiming they lost pay and promotion opportunities because of their gender." As the AP notes, this latest discrimination suit against Wal-Mart "represents three women who each worked for Wal-Mart for more than 10 years and seeks class-action status to cover current and former female employees at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores in Tennessee and parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Mississippi." The story mentions that in 2011, the US Supreme Court "tossed out a class action lawsuit representing 1.6 million women who worked at Wal-Mart on the grounds that their allegations were too varied to show the company engaged in a specific nationwide pattern and practice of gender bias." Similar cases against Wal-Mart since then have been pursued on a regional basis. 

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