Gender & Race Discrimination In Walmart

OBJECTIVES :• Introduction• Walmart case (VIDEO)• 7 step analysis• Data’s• Racism• Gender Roles• Laws • Well-known companies

• First store is opened in Bentonville, Arkansas by Sam Walton in 1962.• 2,100,000 employees worldwide.

• Walmart has average 8,500 stores in 15 countries, under 55 different names.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhELict0E4o

2011 WORLD’S LARGEST

CORPORATIONSRank Company

Revenues($ millions)

Profits($ millions)

1 Wal-Mart Stores 421,849 16,3892 Royal Dutch Shell 378,152 20,1273 Exxon Mobil 354,674 30,4604 BP 308,928 -3,7195 Sinopec Group 273,422 7,629

6 China National Petroleum 240,192 14,367

7 State Grid 226,294 4,5568 Toyota Motor 221,760 4,7669 Japan Post Holdings 203,958 4,89110 Chevron 196,337 19,024

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2011/full_list/

FACTS BETTY DUKES Faced Gender Discrimination On

Walmart. Didnt Get The Right Promotion , She Went to

Complained About Her Problem to Her District Manager.

Then She Was Demoted Back To Cashier And Her Salary Was Decreased.

All Open Positions Were Filled By Men Without Announcement.

Decide To Go Court With 5 More Women Worker İn Walmart.

This Court Covered All Female Employees Of Walmart.

Despite Holding TWO-THİRD Of All Hourly Jobs , Women Filled Only ONE-THİRD Od Salaried Managerial Positions During 1996-2001.

UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR

Walmart Didnt Give Promotion To Women Because Of Their Gender in Time.

Payments Were Less Than Men. Women Lagged Behind Men.

SHAREHOLDERS Betty Dukes and 5 other women employees of

Walmart All female employees of Walmart Managers of Headquarters of Walmart Store Manager of Dukes NGOs which cares about women rights and

feminism , supports equal life standart for everyone in every part of life.

ECONOMIC & LEGAL & ETHICAL ANALYSIS

İt causes reaction to against walmart

Bad image for Wal-Mart. (If the court is accepted by supreme court, there will be a huge amount of penalty.)

COST OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

Until Walmart was found not guilty by SUPREME COURT, they tried to express their selves that they didn act unethical.

This could be done by tv, newspaper adv which had high cost.

Also during court, there were some strikes not to buy products from Walmart.

All those things caused to Walmart in terms of its financial situation .

POSSIBLE ACTIONS Because this case's base is a Walmart market in

California, it can be understood that manager of stores can act how they want without caring about agreement between them and Walmart headquarter. So first action add more rules to prevent unethical, biased actions of managers, employees.

Other action can be a evaluation of managers actions interms of motivation, efficiency, behaviour by workers. With this way, it can be provided that managers can be more careful about their decisions.

Dukes and other 5 women employee can quit. But because they acted against to their company, other firms could hasitate to hire them. Because if they act in the same way, their firm could go to court, also.

BEST ACTION Walmart should increase the control

of each store in different states by monitoring, evaluating.

With this way headquarter can have the all control by putting pressure to store managers.

To change the mind set about women.

To put light on women injustice at their work place.

http://jbsq.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/JBSQ_5F.pdf

RACISM

Minority group: people ho are not singled out for unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination.

Minority Groups

Occur

Because of…• Expansion of

Political Boundaries• Migration

EXAMPLE:General Electric (GE) is accused of passing over black managers for promotion and paying them less than their white counterparts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4557713.stm

WOMEN large responsibilities prefer flexible working

schedule Create a balance between

working and personal life Very emotional Not see as a good decision

maker

MEN One responsibility Work more Work over times More Rational Seen as more confidant Good decision maker

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DISCRIMINATIONOCCURS BY GENDER ROLES

LAW IN TURKEY

http://www.tbmm.gov.tr/kanunlar/k5237.html

http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/legis/nofr/eur/lxwetur.htm

LABOR ACT OF TURKEYLaw No: 4857 Date of Enactment: 22.5.2003 Official Gazette: 10.6.2003- 25134

The principle of equal treatment /Article 5.

‘No discrimination based on language, race, sex, political opinion, philosophical belief, religion and sex or similar reasons is permissible in the employment relationship.

Unless there are essential reasons for different treatment, the employer must not make any discrimination between a full-time and a part-time employee or an employee working under a contract made for a definite period and one working under a contract made for an indefinite period.’‘The employer must not make any discrimination, either directly or indirectly, against an employee in the conclusion, conditions, execution and termination of his employment contract due to the employee's sex or maternity.’‘Different wages for similar jobs or for work of equal value is not permissible.’

‘The employee's sex shall not justify paying him a lower wage.’

Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Comission

LAW IN USA Title VII prohibits not only intentional discrimination, but also practices that have the effect of discriminating against individuals because of their race, color, national origin, religion, or sex.

National Origin DiscriminationIt is illegal to discriminate against an individual because of birthplace, ancestry, culture, or linguistic characteristics common to a specific ethnic group. A rule requiring that employees speak only English on the job may violate Title VII unless an employer shows that the requirement is necessary for conducting business. If the employer believes such a rule is necessary, employees must be informed when English is required and the consequences for violating the rule.

RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATIONAn employer is required to reasonably accommodate the religious belief of an employee or prospective employee, unless doing so would

impose an undue hardship. SEX DISCRIMINATION

Title VII's broad prohibitions against sex discrimination specifically cover: Sexual Harassment Pregnancy Based Discrimination

The other cases GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY

The lawyer, Lorene Schaefer ıs a top lawyer at General Electric Co is suing the company, claiming that she and more than 1500 other women executives were systematically underpaid and underpromoted. WALL STREET INVESTMENT BANK Morgan Stanley said it would pay $A56million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed it paid thousands of female brokers and trainees less than it paid men.

TOSHIBA’S U.S. BUSINESS It was slapped with a $100 million lawsuit for discrimination against female employees over pay and promotion. It’s not the first time Toshiba has been the issue of gender disparities in the workplace.The complaint claims Toshiba America Inc. who do similar work, segregates women into lower pay-grade positions and favors men for promotion. The lawsuit seeks to represent a class of as many as 8,000 female Toshiba employees in the U.S.

EU TO WOMEN:

Sorry, No More Cheaper Car Insurance;European women will no longer enjoy cheaper car insurance because of their sex's safer driving habits.

Three airlines, BRITISH AIRWAYS, QANTAS AND AIR NEW ZEALAND,

discriminate against adult male passengers on the basis of their gender.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.

US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968)

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