Betty Dukes V. Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Clark's company currently demonstrates improper practices of discrimination, particularly toward women. Such as the lack of equal opportunity for promotions, in which two employees were denied as such. And the gender disparity in which most females are in low paid jobs. Furthermore, the

This case is about a group of women who were discriminated against based on their gender. The lawsuit was put into the hands of the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission (EEOC) after a group of Latino women that worked for Rivera Vineyard, Inc. reported multiple complaints. Those involved included Rivera Vineyards Company employees that consist of Latino female workers, male workers, and male managers. Most of the Latino farm workers suffering victimization were females, there were also some males. These males were targeted because of their attempt to speak up on behalf of the harassed females.

In the case of Walmart store Inc v.Dukes, 564 U.S. 338 under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C.S. § 2000e-1 et seq., alleging sex discrimination in pay and promotions. The appeal court 5-4 decision

In this case, Betty Dukes, a female Wal-Mart employee, with five other women, filed a class-action against the violation of civil rights by the Wal-Mart company. The claim was that the

Female employees of the Bank of American filed a lawsuit in 2010 alleging that the employer engaged in gender-based discriminatory work practices against women working in FA jobs

Discrimination continues to run rampant throughout organizations in both the United States and worldwide. The Supreme Court case, Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., dealt with 1.5 million current and former female Wal-Mart employees that claim that they had been a victim of gender discrimination. The ensuing pages will discuss the specific issues that the plaintiffs encountered, followed by suggestions from a human resource manager’s stand point in rectifying adverse impact within the Wal-Mart organization.

A class action lawsuit is when a group of people join together to sue about the same issue. This is often the most efficient way of addressing a problem that many people have. Class action lawsuits may be about faulty medical gadgets, sexual harassment at work or other topics. The plaintiffs work together to effectively sue the defendants as a team. It is easier than filing a bunch

Jacqueline Cote, and her wife Diana Smithson were employees for Walmart for about 15 years. However, Cote’s sued (for cost of caring) when Smithson developed ovarian cancer. Walmart denied the health insurance policy to cover both of them as soon as both of them left (Cote’s had to take care of Smithson). Lydia DePillis, a reporter who writes for Washington Post, stated. “Last week, a notice seeking others affected by Walmart's actions went out to the 1,200 current and former employees who enrolled a same-sex spouse in the retailer's health plan after Jan. 1, 2014. The class action argues that, because the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, they should have been receiving benefits even before the Supreme Court invalidated the Defense of Marriage Act” (1). DePillis insists that just because someone is gay, they should not be discriminated. African Americans are too entitled to their have rights which protect them, and should set all that aside to work in an equal environment, after all workplaces is one of many where people should feel the same as everyone

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Walmart is the biggest importer of foreign products in the United States. For this, Walmart created a code of conduct for its foreign suppliers as “Standards for Suppliers”. To meet this code of conduct foreign supplier need to follow all the local law, rules and regulations of country and the working condition of industry like pay, hiring forced labor, child labor and discrimination. This code of conduct states Walmart may make on-site inspection to the foreign products that is going to be imported in Walmart USA by which it can cancel or reject the low standard product while site inspection. These are included in Walmart’s supply contract with its suppliers in foreign countries. The foreign workers who are importing goods to Walmart from China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Swaziland and Nicaragua sued Walmart to the US district court alleging that they were third party beneficiaries to the Walmart’s contract to its foreign suppliers that due to the Walmart’s breach of standard they were due damages from Walmart. Their employees violated the standards because of Walmart failed to investigate on working condition of foreign suppliers. Even knowing the standards were being violated Walmart failed to implement the standards mentioned there in contract. The U.S. court held that the litigants were not intended third party beneficiaries to Walmart’s contract to its foreign suppliers and terminated the

Another legal case that was reviewed, and is a directly correlated to EEOC and Civil Rights discrimination issues is the Alaimo v. Thompsonville Fire District #2 and Collen Ann Reidy. In this case we again see Civil Rights Act violations as well as Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 under 29 USC § 791 and Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 violations (Phelan, 2015). Additionally, we see State of Connecticut Workers Compensation Retaliation Violations related to Conn. Gen. § 31-290a and Conn. Gen. § 31-76b. In this case we again see retaliation against Alaimo for he didn’t agree with a politicians plans not to build a new fire station. Instead of following the laws, statues, regulations and policies as they relate to an employee the Commissioners

This lawsuit unfortunately, gives HR and recruiting a bad name. After reading the article I have to admit that I was both appalled, alarmed; however, I wasn’t shocked, though. Unfortunately, discrimination is too common.

From a reasonable person perspective, Maalick encountered discriminatory ridicule and insults on multiple occasions from multiple people. With cumulative instances of harassment, the Chenworth office was a hostile work environment. Therefore, the compilation of illegal behaviors may entitle Maalick to a Title VII lawsuit, as long as this lawsuit is filed with 180 days (Hersch & Shinall,

Wal-Mart has been accused of discriminating against women. Women had been denied training and promotion opportunities that are offered to men. In addition women are underpaid. That is, men are paid more than women. According to Hoover’s handbook of American business, “in June 2001 a group of six current and former female Wal-Mart employees filed a sex discrimination lawsuit (seeking to represent up to 500,000 current and former Wal-Mart workers) against the company.”(Hoover’s Handbook, pg.907) The suit was filed because Wal- Mart failed to provide equal employment for women. In fact, there are over 70 percent of women working at Wal-Mart, but only a small amount of those women are managers. So, men are

The first way Walmart shows gender discrimination is by giving the female workers reduced amount salary compare to the male workers. Remember these male workers do a similar or the same job as the female workers who work at Walmart. A good example of this is a male cashier who works at Walmart gets about fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars a year. On the other hand a female cashier at Walmart gets thirteen thousand eight hundred thirty-one dollars a year. These salary allocation system by the middle management of Walmart shows that they don’t care about the female workers. This gender salary discrimination is unethical from a moral standpoint. It is morally unethical because Walmart is stealing money directly from the female workers who really deserve it. On the other hand this is also legally wrong because there is law put in place by