Wal-Mart's Pride Month Discrimination Cases

Part One Wal-Mart opened its first store in 1962 in Arkansas. Since the opening of the first store they have been one of the largest retail store. Much of their success is owned to the founder, Sam Walton. Walton believed in low prices and great service. He had great success with this vision over the span of his career. Sam died at the age of 74 in 1992. Little did he know that in the future his visions of providing great service and low prices, would come at a cost. The cost being several discrimination cases filed against them since 2001.
In the year 2001, the first case was filed in Pittburg, California. Five female employees filed a lawsuit accusing the retailer of discriminating of paying female workers less than men and giving less
The most recent case was a discrimination against same sex marriage health insurance rights. In order to make amends Wal-Mart has created a campaign is for Pride Month. They have attempted to donate money to LGBT community. The community states, “As you may know, one of the corporations sponsoring Pride events in your city is Walmart. Walmart is the nation’s largest employer and millions of Americans shop there every day. Their actions – or lack of action – matter. When it comes to LGBT issues, the sad reality is that they are trying to pass themselves off as an ally to the LGBT community by writing checks, while ignoring allegations of discrimination and hate. This must stop, and it must stop now.” (Pond, 2016 par 6.) It doesn’t appear that the discrimination trouble for Wal-Mart is ever going to stop. It goes from one type of discrimination to the
Wal-Mart could have benefited from investing in diversity training and management would have a better understanding of how critical diversity is, within the workplace. “Organizational leaders who adopt this paradigm are proactive about learning from diversity, encourage people to use their cultural experience at work, fight forms of dominance, and subordination based on demographic categories, and ensure that conflict related to diversity are acknowledged and resolved with sensitivity.” (Cañas 2014, Sondak 2014 p. 17) If they adopt this paradigm they employee would be knowledgeable about different forms of diversity and could have prevent several of their cases against them. Not investing in diversity training is cost them more money in the long run and giving bad publicity to Wal-Mart. I personally do not shop at Wal-Mart because of the way they treat their employees. Had they taken a lesson in treating employees fairly, my opinion on spending my money at Wal-Mart may