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Walmart lawsuit (re gender discrimination in USA)
Author: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
In 2001, six female employees of Walmart filed suit against their company in US federal court alleging that Walmart discriminated against them in salary, bonuses and training. After extensive discovery and oral argument, in 2003 the plaintiffs filed...
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Wal-Mart Agrees To Improve Workplace Safety Conditions After Fined For Unlocked Trash Compactors and Poorly Handled Chemicals (USA)
Author: Rebekah Marcarelli, Headlines & Global News
Wal-Mart Stores...has agreed to make some safety improvements and pay a $190,000 fine after violations were found concerning trash compactors and chemicals. The improvements will be implemented in over 2,800 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores...Violations...
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Case profile: Walmart lawsuit (re gender discrimination in USA)
Author: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre case profile for lawsuit against Walmart filed in US court claiming the company had discriminated against its female employees.]
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Documents Indicate Walmart Blocked Safety Push in Bangladesh
Author: Steven Greenhouse, New York Times
...[O]fficials who attended a meeting held in Bangladesh in 2011 to discuss factory safety in the garment industry said on Wednesday that the Walmart official there played the lead role in blocking an effort to have global retailers pay more for...
Over 100 Powerhouse Apparel Brands and Companies Have Signed the Cotton Pledge [Uzbekistan]
Author: Responsible Sourcing Network
Responsible Sourcing Network...surpassed 100 signatories to the RSN Cotton Pledge...The growing number of...brands and retailers publicly committing to avoid Uzbek cotton communicates to the Government of Uzbekistan that the apparel industry does not...
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Wal-Mart Workers Limit Gender Bias Suit to California Stores [USA]
Author: Margaret Cronin Fisk, Karen Gullo, Bloomberg
Women who originally sued Wal-Mart Stores...for sex discrimination on behalf of 1 million female co-workers across the U.S. amended their suit to cover bias claims of only workers in California. The more limited filing...followed a U.S. Supreme Court...
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Retailers Are Put on the Spot Over Anti-Gay Aid
Author: Erik Eckholm, New York Times
The culture war over gay rights has entered the impersonal world of e-commerce...[A]dvocates...have put many of the country’s largest retailers…on the spot over their indirect and...unnoticed roles in funneling money to Christian groups...opposing...
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Unprecedented Number of U.S. and European Apparel Companies and Major Industry Association Sign Pledge to Call for Elimination of Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan
Author: Responsible Sourcing Network
More than 60 of the world’s best known apparel companies and brands as well as the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA), which represents more than 800 brands, have signed a pledge to not knowingly source Uzbek cotton harvested using...
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Wal-Mart Settles Slur Suit [USA]
Author: Miguel Bustillo, Wall Street Journal
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has agreed to pay $440,000 to settle a lawsuit by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Mexican immigrant workers at a California Sam's Club who claimed they were harassed about their national origin by a...
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Wal-Mart’s Million-Worker Bias Case May Mean ‘Rough Justice’ for Companies [USA]
Author: Greg Stohr, Bloomberg
More than 100 Wal-Mart Stores Inc. workers paint a similar picture in sworn complaints about the company: Local managers made sexist decisions about promotions and pay, and top officials did nothing to stop them. The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to...
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