The court ruled<\/a> that women who said they were paid less because of their gender must pursue legal action individually.<\/p>\nPlaintiffs had sought to unite more than a million women in their effort.<\/p>\n
Wal-Mart denied the accusation and said female employees across the US had no grounds for a class action.<\/p>\n
‘Literally millions’<\/span><\/p>\nOn Monday, the court overturned a ruling by a lower appeals court that 1.5 million women who had worked at Wal-Mart retail stores could unite in the class action suit.<\/p>\n
The women, led by a group of named plaintiffs, sought back pay and punitive damages for the class of women, saying the company passed female employees over for promotion and paid them less.<\/p>\n
Their suit relied on statistical evidence about pay disparities between male and female employees and anecdotal reports of individual cases of discrimination.<\/p>\n
“Here, [the group of women employees] wish to sue about literally millions of employment decisions at once,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote.<\/p>\n
“Without some glue holding the alleged reasons for all those decisions together, it will be impossible to say that examination of all the class members’ claims for relief will produce a common answer to the crucial question ‘why was I disfavoured.'”<\/p>\n
Mr Scalia also noted that Wal-Mart’s written policy did not allow gender discrimination, and did not have any testing procedure or evaluation method that could be shown to be biased.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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