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Wal-Mart Hit with Fifth Regional Gender Bias Class Action
By Matt O’Donnell
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has been hit with yet another regional class action lawsuit accusing the retail giant of discriminating against female employees. The case marks the fifth regional gender bias class action filed against Wal-Mart since the U.S. Supreme Court nixed a nationwide case in 2011.
The class action lawsuit was filed in Wisconsin by five women – four former Wal-Mart employees and one current worker – who allege Wal-Mart discriminated against female employees who worked in Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan in both compensation and promotion opportunities.
The Wisconsin case is one of five regional class action lawsuits that have been filed after the Supreme Court rejected a nationwide gender discrimination class action lawsuit seeking to represent millions of female employees. The high court ruled the women did not have enough in common to proceed as a group, but allowed them to regroup to form smaller regional class action lawsuits.
Wal-Mart was able to successfully petition the court to dismiss two of the regional class action lawsuits filed in Texas and Tennessee. It is also seeking dismissal of the other cases pending in California and Florida.
An attorney for the Wisconsin plaintiffs said they are prepared to receive the same pushback from Wal-Mart in their case.
“Wal-Mart has been successful in making technical legal arguments preventing courts from reaching the merits of women’s’ claims, and we expect more of these arguments here. Nevertheless, we hope that the court in Wisconsin will, after this long period of waiting, finally allow their claims to be heard by a jury,” Jim Kaster of Nichols Kaster PLLP said in a statement.
The Wisconsin gender discrimination class action lawsuit is seeking to represent female workers employed by Wal-Mart since December 1998.
The case is Ladik et al. v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Case No. 13-cv-00123, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
The plaintiffs are represented by Nichols Kaster PLLP, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, and the Impact Fund.
Updated February 28th, 2013
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One thought on Wal-Mart Hit with Fifth Regional Gender Bias Class Action
When I worked at WalMart…..all the managers were fat under qualified (believe it or not) women…..So I don’t understand this.