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Companies urged to examine employment practices.(News)(cases on employee discrimination)
Business Insurance, February, 2007 by Greenwald, Judy
Byline: Judy Greenwald The class certification approved by a federal appellate court of 1.5 million current and former female Wal-Mart Stores Inc. workers is the largest U.S. employment class action ever, but the ruling breaks no new legal ground, say most observers. The lawsuit alleges gender-based discrimination in pay and promotions.
Even so, experts say it behooves employers to re-examine their own employment practices. Last week's 2-1 ruling by a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in Betty Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Inc. focuses on whether the lower court abused its broad discretion in granting class action status. Brad Seligman, executive director of the Berkeley, Calif.-based Impact Fund, who represents the plaintiffs in...
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