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San Francisco judge
to decide: A judge in San Francisco must decide whether Wal-Mart will face the largest ever class action lawsuit on discrimination in employment. The discrimination lawsuit, which has been filed on behalf of six women workers, could come to involve close to 1.5 million present and former employees. In the suit, Wal-Mart is charged with paying its women workers less than men in the same positions. Women have also been discriminated when it comes to promotions, the lawsuit says. It is underpinned by evidence from thirty US states, supporting these claims. Whereas two thirds of all hourly workers in Wal-Mart were women in 2001, they had only slightly over one third of the assistant manager's positions and 14.3 per cent of the store manager's jobs. Less than ten per cent of district managers were women. Both hourly workers and managers earned more if they were men, less if they were women, the lawsuit contends.
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