{"id":4343,"date":"2010-04-27T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2010-05-17T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:09:02","slug":"appeals-court-rules-discrimination-suit-against-wal-mart-can-go-to-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/04\/27\/appeals-court-rules-discrimination-suit-against-wal-mart-can-go-to-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court rules discrimination suit against Wal-Mart can go to trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20100427\/BUSINESS05\/4270335\/Appeals-court-rules-discrimination-su\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4344\" title=\"100429_walmart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/100429_walmart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>A sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday exposed Wal-Mart  Stores Inc. to billions of dollars in legal damages when it ruled a  massive class-action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination over pay for  female workers can go to trial. In its 6-5 ruling, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the  world&#8217;s largest private employer will have to face charges that it pays  women less than men for the same jobs and that female employees receive  fewer promotions and have to wait longer for those promotions than male  counterparts. The  retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., has fiercely fought the lawsuit  since it was first filed by six women in federal court in San Francisco  in 2001, losing two previous rulings in the trial court and again in the  appeals court in 2007. Wal-Mart  successfully convinced the appeals court to revisit its 2007 ruling  made by a three-judge panel with a larger 11-judge panel, arguing that  women who allege discrimination should file individual lawsuits. Image: blogs.forbes.com. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20100427\/BUSINESS05\/4270335\/Appeals-court-rules-discrimination-su\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA |  Company \u2014 Ethical Quote  link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=13\" target=\"_blank\">Wal-Mart<\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20100427\/BUSINESS05\/4270335\/Appeals-court-rules-discrimination-su\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday exposed Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to billions of dollars in legal damages when it ruled a massive class-action lawsuit alleging gender discrimination over pay for female workers can go to trial. In its 6-5 ruling, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said the world&#8217;s largest private employer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}