Walmart Facing Discrimination Lawsuit

American retail giant Walmart was freeing to face the largest class-action employment lawsuit in U.S history when a national appeals court was finally allowed the combined multiparty litigation to move ahead to trial. after(prenominal) that, Walmart decided to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling of the national appeals court. And the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the drive.The lawsuit was first filed by Betty Dukes, a acquit greeter in Pittsburg, California, along with five of her co-workers in 2001. In that boldness, Walmart is accused of paying women on salary and those hourly takings less than men for the same jobs and giving them fewer opportunities for promotion. The workers also give tongue to that women workers made up more than 70 percent of Walmarts hourly work force, exactly made up less than one-third of its store management in the past decade. The plaintiffs wanted back pay and retaliatory damage.Now the question for the U.S Supreme Court is n ot if on that point was contrariety but if the rubrics by the individual employees can be combined as a class action. If the previous ruling stood, the case would cover active 1.5 million-plus women including all current and former women workers, and their claims could amount to billions of dollars. And this case will force the stupendousgest private gender-bias case in U.S. history.This case is a real primal business issue for Walmart, and any senior manager of the organization should aid about this. Not only because of the billions of dollars Walmart force retain to pay out, but also the impact and damage it would cost on the phoners image. The plaintiffs in this case was seeking back pay and punitory damage, and ascribable to the fact that over 1.5 million walmart effeminate workers could be involved, the claim could be up to billions of dollars. This would be a big loss to the company. Also, Walmart tried to barf an improved image for the organization, and this ca se could be a big stupor to the companys image. Moreover, the case might also lead to contrive in companys stock price. And most importantly, if this case ultimately proceed to trial, it might lead to a lot more standardised cases against the company.In this issue, there ar many stakeholders involved. First of all, Walmarts shareholders are one of the key stakeholders. Because if the case get proceed, there is a very(prenominal) big chance in dropping in the company stock price. And if Walmart utimately lost the case, the company would need to pay billion of dollars. In twain situations, the companys shareholders would have direct financial loss. Although the shareholders might have no interest on companys image, they would still apply the company can solve the issue as short as doable and in an efficient way. Though they are the shareholders of the company, they had not some(prenominal) power regarding to this issue. There are not much they can do to help the company. The y might sell their shares if they thought the future of the company is uncertain. some other key stakeholder is the management of Walmart. They are one of the main reasons why Walmart is confront the discrimination issue. The female workers filed a lawsuit since they thought Walmart management handle them unfairly. If the case get proceed and Walmart ultimately lost the case, the get along of Directors might want to review and lay off part of the managment to prevent corresponding issues from happening again. Since the issue is now already in stage 4, there is not much the management could do.Walmarts Board of Directors are sure enough one of the key stakeholders. The issue directly proceeds the companys tax revenue and earning, therefore it had direct impact on the Board of Directors. Also, since the companys managment was responsible for this issue, and the managment was chosen by the Board of Directors, therefore, they were responsible for the issue too. The Board of Direc tors would try to solve the issue as soon as possible but in an efficient way. They would want to solve the issue soon in magnitude to protect the companys image and substain the customers confidence. However, they would not wane the issue easily since they need to act in the better interest of the company.The last key stakeholders are the workers of the company, especially the female workers. Because this case had a big influence on the benefit of the companys workers. No matter how the case go, Walmarts managment would adjust the way they dish out their workers. And if the ruling is favor of the workers, they would get back pay and claim for the punitive damage. And if that is the case, the companys workers will have more power to them. This case could be seen as an example for any similar cases.To solve this action, the company would want to protect and improve the companys image as a good corporate. Also, Walmart would not mind pay some claim to settle the lawsuit, since the y would like to settle the issue quickly in order to gain back customers confidence. However, they would only settle for some reasonable amount.In my opinion, Walmart should face the lawsuit and take care for the result from the U.S Supreme Court. It is because this case could affect far more than this case. If the company settle for the issue, there is a big chance that more similar cases would come up in the future. And that is not good for the company future development. The key decision maker of Walmart should not settle easily in this particular case.Other than this strategy, Walmart could try to settle with the workers with compromises. In order to aviod the lawsuit, the company could negotiate with the workers and try to settle by paying a significate amount of dollars. The amount could be a very huge number considering the case involved over 1.5 million female workers. However, this strategy might lead to more of the similar cases and more lawsuits against the company.There fore, I would recommend Walmarts ket decision maker to take the first strategy. Walmart should wait for the result from the U.S. Supreme Court and let the court to determine the result, it is the outflank interest for the companys future and development.