The Supreme Court began hearing arguments today in a suit between approximately half a million women and Wal-Mart. The plaintiffs claim the company discriminated based on sex for employee pay raises and promotions. Shannon Bream has the full story on what could be the largest employment law class action lawsuit in US history. For more from the Fox News Insider, check out www.foxnewsinsider.com.

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Democracy NOW! DN! – The US Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the largest class action lawsuit in history filed by 1.5 million current and former female employees of Walmart, who say they were allegedly paid less and promoted less often than their male counterparts. The Court found women who worked at Walmart did not have enough in common to constitute a “class” in a class-action lawsuit. It did not address whether Walmart had discriminated against women, but in writing for the minority in part of the court’s ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, that the “plaintiffs’ evidence, including class members’ tales of their own experiences, suggests that gender bias suffused Walmart’s company culture.” We speak with former Walmart employee Stephanie Odle, one of the original plaintiffs in the case. We also discuss the “limits of a courtroom remedy” in this case, and Walmart’s anti-union efforts with Liza Featherstone, author of “Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker’s Rights at Wal-Mart.” Published, with permission from democracynow.org. www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. Copyright democracynow.org, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.

Tommy R. Bennett, a former employee of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, has filed a discrimination and wrongful termination complaint against the reverend. Bennett, who is gay, was the National Director of Community Affairs at Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jackson, 55, also serves on President Obama’s LGBT Leadership Council.

DemocracyNow.org – The US Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the largest class action lawsuit in history filed by 1.5 million current and former female employees of Walmart, who say they were allegedly paid less and promoted less often than their male counterparts. The Court found women who worked at Walmart did not have enough in common to constitute a “class” in a class-action lawsuit. It did not address whether Walmart had discriminated against women, but in writing for the minority in part of the court’s ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, that the “plaintiffs’ evidence, including class members’ tales of their own experiences, suggests that gender bias suffused Walmart’s company culture.” Democracy Now! interviews former Walmart employee Stephanie Odle, one of the original plaintiffs in the case, and to Liza Featherstone about the “limits of a courtroom remedy” in this case. Featherstone is the author of the book, “Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker’s Rights at Wal-Mart.” Watch Part 1 of 2: www.youtube.com To download the podcast, read the transcript, and for more Democracy Now! reports about Walmart, visit www.democracynow.org FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: @democracynow Daily Email News Digest: www.democracynow.org Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit www.democracynow.org

After being subjected to anonymous threats and verbal abuse, a Home Depot employee who described herself as “intersexed” or a “partial hermaphrodite” submitted sufficient evidence to defeat the home improvement store’s summary judgment motion on her hostile work environment sexual harassment claim, according to the federal court in New Jersey. In this case, the employee testified that she was born with male sex organs but also with a large amount of female hormones. The employee lived as a male until she was 14 years old, when she changed her name from Ronald to Ashley. She was hired by Home Depot in 2006 and soon began hearing “whispers and rumors” around the store that she was a man and that male customers were making obscene comments toward her. The employee complained to a human resources manager, who investigated and prepared a report indicating that the store manager was not cooperative, that despite her direction, he was not taking the HR manager’s advice to stop the badgering seriously—a particular concern because other employees would emulate the store manager’s actions. That same year the store manager questioned the employee’s use of the women’s’ rest room when a female customer expressed discomfort with being in the rest room with “it” apparently referring to the employee’s transsexuality. The HR manager advised the store manager that it was appropriate for the employee to use the women’s rest room and that the store manager should spend some time on trying to …

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Democracy NOW! DN! – The US Supreme Court has unanimously dismissed the largest class action lawsuit in history filed by 1.5 million current and former female employees of Walmart, who say they were allegedly paid less and promoted less often than their male counterparts. The Court found women who worked at Walmart did not have enough in common to constitute a “class” in a class-action lawsuit. It did not address whether Walmart had discriminated against women, but in writing for the minority in part of the court’s ruling, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote, that the “plaintiffs’ evidence, including class members’ tales of their own experiences, suggests that gender bias suffused Walmart’s company culture.” We speak with former Walmart employee Stephanie Odle, one of the original plaintiffs in the case. We also discuss the “limits of a courtroom remedy” in this case, and Walmart’s anti-union efforts with Liza Featherstone, author of “Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker’s Rights at Wal-Mart.” Published, with permission from democracynow.org. www.democracynow.org Provided to you under Democracy NOW! creative commons license. Copyright democracynow.org, an independent non-profit user funded news media, recognized and broadcast world wide.