{"id":723885,"date":"2010-04-26T16:53:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10005007"},"modified":"2010-04-26T16:45:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T20:45:20","slug":"over-1-million-potential-plaintiffs-in-walmart-gender-bias-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/723885","title":{"rendered":"Over 1 Million Potential Plaintiffs In Walmart Gender Bias Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was a bad day for Walmart in the courtroom, as a California appeals court granted class-action status to a gender bias lawsuit against the retail giant. That means that over 1 million current and former female employees are now able to join their names to the largest case of its kind in U.S. history. <\/p>\n

The plaintiffs in the suit allege that Walmart has made a practice of both paying women employees less money and offering them fewer promotions than their male counterparts. The original suit was filed nine years ago by six female employees.<\/p>\n

Giving the case class-action status means that every woman who as worked at for Walmart since 2001 now has the option of being part of the lawsuit. <\/p>\n

Said an attorney for the plaintiff:<\/p>\n

Wal-Mart tries to project an improved image as a good corporate citizen… But no amount of PR is going to work until it addresses the claims of its female employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Walmart has denied any discriminatory policies and had hoped to fight each case individually.<\/p>\n

Wal-Mart Workers Can Sue as Group in Gender Bias Case<\/a> [BusinessWeek]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a bad day for Walmart in the courtroom, as a California appeals court granted class-action status to a gender bias lawsuit against the retail giant. That means that over 1 million current and former female employees are now able to join their names to the largest case of its kind in U.S. history. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}