{"id":13493,"date":"2010-04-28T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:46:13","slug":"wal-mart-to-face-potentially-largest-sex-discrimination-lawsuit-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2010\/04\/28\/wal-mart-to-face-potentially-largest-sex-discrimination-lawsuit-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart to Face Potentially Largest Sex-Discrimination Lawsuit in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-042810\/2010_04_28_hurtado.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-042810\/2010_04_28_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/images.publicradio.org\/content\/2005\/02\/11\/20050211_walmart_18.jpg\" alt=\"walmart\" \/>The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart could proceed as a class-action case. The narrow 6-5 decision by the San Francisco court exposes the retail giant to potential liabilities running in the billions of dollars. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart\u2019s corporate structure systematically discriminated against female employees in terms of compensation and promotions. The case, Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., was originally filed nearly ten years ago by Betty Dukes and six other plaintiffs and may now finally move to trial in light of Monday\u2019s ruling. Prior to the decision, the corporation that is the largest private employer in the United States had asked that the class-action status be dropped arguing that it was too large to be considered. The majority court opinion rejected that notion as Judge Michael Daly Hawkins wrote that; \u201calthough the size of this class action is large, mere size does not render a case unmanageable.\u201d As many as one million or more women currently or formerly employed with the corporation since June 2001 could be included in the lawsuit making it one of the largest, if not the largest sex-discrimination class-action case in U.S. history. Wal-Mart has vowed to appeal the Ninth Circuit decision all the way to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Arcelia Hurtado, Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.equalrights.org\">www.equalrights.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmartclass.com\">www.walmartclass.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Monday that a sex-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart could proceed as a class-action case. The narrow 6-5 decision by the San Francisco court exposes the retail giant to potential liabilities running in the billions of dollars. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart\u2019s corporate structure systematically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}