Anastasia Stella H 14/361213/EK/19729
Wal-Mart’s Women
1. What financial impact do you think the lawsuit could potentially have on Wal-Mart? Do
you think the women deserve to win their lawsuit? What if the outcome of the case cost
Wal-Mart so much it had to lay off thousands of its workers and close stores?
The case of Wal-Mart’s women will, of course, affect Wal-Mart financially. It may
require Wal-Mart to pay some amount of money for compensation payment to its female
employees or at least to pay settlement money to resolve the problem. Some humanists or people
who care about gender equality may also protest to Wal-Mart and will then harm its reputation
that is going to give an impact in the future, whether it is to lose investor or customer. By paying
the settlement payment or the compensation, Wal-Mart will lose its money or asset or it may be
taken from its profit. Hence, it will result in less prompting investment for the investors,
moreover when there is no guarantee that such thing will not happen again in the future.
The women deserve to win the lawsuit so that it will give Wal-Mart a lesson to not
discriminating women and start to give them the same respect and opportunity as it gave the
male employees. A good employee is not seen based on the individual’s gender but rather based
on his/her skill. The payment rate of employees in the same rank, doing the same job and
spending the same amount of work hour should be the same in general. When the women win the
lawsuit, it will also be like an announcement to other companies or even the society in general
that women deserve to be treated equally with men in the work force.
Wal-Mart should have paid a compensation fee to the women employee but not at the
cost of firing workers and closing stores. If this happens, it is best for Wal-Mart to negotiate
about the compensation amount so that it will not affect Wal-Mart’s financial health. Firing
workers and closing stores will create new problems such as unemployment, losing source of
revenue that will lead to capital flight, and also requiring Wal-Mart to give the severance pay to
its workers who are fired. Wal-Mart has to discuss the payment with the plaintiff party regarding
the compensation payment and apologize for its discriminating behavior and promise to give
equal treatment for all worker regardless of their gender. As long as Wal-Mart can keep its
promise, then the higher compensation payment should not be necessary, unless Wal-Mart breaks
the promise.
2. What are the major moral complaints of the females suing Wal-Mart? Do you believe
these complaints are justified? Why? Wal-Mart has said that the case should not be heard
as a class-action, but that each woman should be considered individually and an individual
determination should be made regarding whether she specifically was discriminated
against by Wal-Mart, because each woman’s situation is different. Do you agree?
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Wal-Mart’s Women
1. What financial impact do you think the lawsuit could potentially have on Wal-Mart? Do
you think the women deserve to win their lawsuit? What if the outcome of the case cost
Wal-Mart so much it had to lay off thousands of its workers and close stores?
The case of Wal-Mart’s women will, of course, affect Wal-Mart financially. It may
require Wal-Mart to pay some amount of money for compensation payment to its female
employees or at least to pay settlement money to resolve the problem. Some humanists or people
who care about gender equality may also protest to Wal-Mart and will then harm its reputation
that is going to give an impact in the future, whether it is to lose investor or customer. By paying
the settlement payment or the compensation, Wal-Mart will lose its money or asset or it may be
taken from its profit. Hence, it will result in less prompting investment for the investors,
moreover when there is no guarantee that such thing will not happen again in the future.
The women deserve to win the lawsuit so that it will give Wal-Mart a lesson to not
discriminating women and start to give them the same respect and opportunity as it gave the
male employees. A good employee is not seen based on the individual’s gender but rather based
on his/her skill. The payment rate of employees in the same rank, doing the same job and
spending the same amount of work hour should be the same in general. When the women win the
lawsuit, it will also be like an announcement to other companies or even the society in general
that women deserve to be treated equally with men in the work force.
Wal-Mart should have paid a compensation fee to the women employee but not at the
cost of firing workers and closing stores. If this happens, it is best for Wal-Mart to negotiate
about the compensation amount so that it will not affect Wal-Mart’s financial health. Firing
workers and closing stores will create new problems such as unemployment, losing source of
revenue that will lead to capital flight, and also requiring Wal-Mart to give the severance pay to
its workers who are fired. Wal-Mart has to discuss the payment with the plaintiff party regarding
the compensation payment and apologize for its discriminating behavior and promise to give
equal treatment for all worker regardless of their gender. As long as Wal-Mart can keep its
promise, then the higher compensation payment should not be necessary, unless Wal-Mart breaks
the promise.
2. What are the major moral complaints of the females suing Wal-Mart? Do you believe
these complaints are justified? Why? Wal-Mart has said that the case should not be heard
as a class-action, but that each woman should be considered individually and an individual
determination should be made regarding whether she specifically was discriminated
against by Wal-Mart, because each woman’s situation is different. Do you agree?
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