LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Of the thousands of lawsuits that target Wal-Mart Stores Inc., none worries the company more than the charge by six former employees that the country’s largest private employer discriminates against women. On Wednesday, a federal judge in San Francisco heard lawyers argue for the suit to be elevated to a class action — a move that could add 1.5 million plaintiffs and make the lawsuit against the nation’s biggest retailer the largest of its kind.
Posted by Editor at September 25, 2003 10:30 AM