Janette Frisch

According to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's, dissenting opinion in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes 564 U.S. ____ (2011) women hold 70% of all hourly jobs at Wal-Mart. You would think then, that Wal-Mart would be sure to treat its female employees well. Wal-Mart has asserted that it has "strong policies against discrimination", and that certain gender discrimination claims were "not representative the hundreds of thousands of women that work at Wal-Mart". The volume of sex discrimination suits that Wal-Mart has faced, particularly in the last several years however, seems to suggest otherwise. Since Wal-Mart has been kind enough to go through the painful, arduous litigation for us-- and incur exorbitant costs in doing so several times over-- let's continue our practice, of examining some of those cases and learn from them after the jump...

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