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New Lawsuit Alleges Sex Discrimination at Walmart

Four months after the U.S. Supreme Court spurned a nationwide sex-discrimination suit against Walmart, female employees of the world's largest retailer returned to court on Oct. 27 with claims of pay and promotional bias against 95,000 women in California and new evidence of sex-stereotyped comments by the company's chief executive. The high court's ruling dismissed a 10-year-old class-action suit on behalf of as many as 1.6 million past and present employees, saying they failed to point to any company-wide policy that denied them equal treatment. The court did not decide whether Walmart had actually discriminated against any employees, however, or close the door on smaller class actions at the local or regional level. On Oct. 27, plaintiffs in the earlier suit filed a new claim in San Francisco on behalf of female employees in California - the first of what attorney Joseph Sellers described as "an armada of cases" around the nation. Click here to read more.
 
 



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