Labor & Employment Law

$11.7 million settles Walmart sex discrimination suit

Walmart has agreed to pay more than $11.7 million to settle a suit by EEOC.

EEOC claimed that a Walmart distribution center denied jobs to female applicants from 1998 through February 2005, regularly hiring male entry-level applicants for warehouse positions, but excluding female applicants who were equally or better qualified.

EEOC alleged that Walmart regularly used gender stereotypes in filling entry-level order filler positions, and that hiring officials told applicants that order filling positions were not suitable for women, and that they hired mainly 18- to 25-year-old males for order filling positions.

[Press release]

Full post as published by Ross' Employment Law Blog on March 05, 2010 (boomark / email).