Pay Equity - Cases
The ACLU works to end discrimination in the workplace and ensure that all workers — regardless of sex, race, national origin, age or disability—are able to bring home every dollar they rightfully earn. As a result of discrimination, including employers’ reliance on gender stereotypes, women lack parity with men in earnings.
Wal-Mart v. Dukes
At issue was whether this sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart should be allowed to proceed as a class action.
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Davis v. Cintas
In Davis v. Cintas, an appeals court will decide whether women around the country who applied to be sales representatives at Cintas — a company that rents uniforms and supplies to businesses — can bring a class action to challenge what they claim are Cintas’s discriminatory hiring practices. Read our amicus brief in the case here and a blog on the issue at hand.
Covarrubias v. Capt. Charlie's Seafood Inc.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of North Carolina and the North Carolina Justice Center filed a class action lawsuit and charges of discrimination against Capt. Charlie's Seafood, Inc. on behalf of three temporary H-2B visa workers for unlawfully restricting them to certain work solely because they are women. The class action lawsuit charged that the company underpaid H-2B visa workers and failed to reimburse them for visa and travel costs.
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- North Carolina Seafood Company to Implement Gender Non-Discrimination Policy After Guest Workers’ Lawsuit (news)
- Women Guestworkers Challenge Seafood Company's Gender-Based Job Restrictions (news)
- Sorry, Charlie. (blog post)
- Covarrubias v. Capt. Charlie's Seafood Inc. - Consent Decree (legal document)
U.S. v. New York City Board of Education
The American Civil Liberties Union represents the New York City Custodial Workers in a discrimination case.
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