Last Friday, a San Francisco federal court judge dismissed an attempt to file a class action discrimination suit against Wal-Mart, for and on behalf of 150,000 Wal-Mart women employees in California. The suit is based on the claim that male colleagues in the company were given higher pay and more opportunities for career development.
The initial complaint was filed back in 2001, claiming representation on 1.6 million women from all over the United States. This class action suit was thrown out by the US Supreme Court back in 2011, saying there was no convincing proof of the existence of company wide policy on pay and promotion discrimination. The same court said that there were just too many women in many jobs throughout the retail giant's organization to be represented into one single lawsuit.
Thus, the move was to file in court the scaled down cases of the main suit alleging discrimination that occurred in different states and internal regions under Wal-Mart organizational authorities.
Despite these legal issues , Wal-Mart remains as the largest and most profitable retail company in the United States. In twelve months ending April 30, 2013, the company's gross profi was determined to amount to US$125,59 billion.
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