Posted on 11/12/2005 5:05:25 PM PST by indianrightwinger
Boeing Will Pay $72.5 Million to Settle Sex-Discrimination Suit Associated Press November 12, 2005 6:13 p.m.
SEATTLE -- Boeing Co. has agreed to pay $72.5 million to thousands of women to settle a class-action action sex-discrimination lawsuit, according to documents filed Thursday in U.S. District Court.
The pay out is the maximum allowed under a settlement agreement that won preliminary approval from a federal judge last year, The Seattle Times reported. As part of the deal, Boeing admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to change its hiring, pay, promotion practices and how it investigates employee complaints.
"We've moved ahead on numerous fronts in making improvements to our work environment," John Dern, a spokesman at Boeing's corporate headquarters in Chicago, told The Seattle Times.
If the plaintiffs' motion for speedy payment is granted, checks could be in the mail to some 17,960 current and former female Boeing employees by Christmas. Otherwise, the aerospace titan has until Jan. 14 to pay a court administrator, who will then issue checks to class members according to seniority and position.
The exact amounts to be disbursed are under seal, but range from $500 to $26,000, Helgren said. The average pre-tax pay out is $3,000 per employee. About $15 million will be deducted from the total settlement to cover attorneys' fees and other legal costs.
In all, more than 20,000 current and former female employees out of a potential pool of 29,000 said Boeing discriminated against them at Seattle-area plants between 1997 and 2000. Of those claims, nearly 2,400 were thrown out for filing irregularities, including failure to meet a May 3, 2005, deadline.
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They are truly a danger for America. :-)
The "Tort Tax" strikes again.
Where do us white males go to get ours?
Are white males a minority yet?
Are women a minority?
Even though I am not a white male, I don't get these handouts. :-) Let us simply say qualified and hard working people don't qualify.
In any case, the plaintiffs in this type of lawsuit get a pittance whereas the lawyers walk off happy.
Whatever happened to class-action reform.
You are now trying to inject reason. Come on! :-)
Women earn 76 cents on every dollar men earn. That is sufficient evidence to prove discrimination and show what a sexist society we have become. </s>
Has anyone here actually been party to, and happy with the results of a "class action" lawsuit?
I haven't, just curious.
"In all, more than 20,000 current and former female employees out of a potential pool of 29,000 said Boeing discriminated against them at Seattle-area plants between 1997 and 2000. Of those claims, nearly 2,400 were thrown out for filing irregularities, including failure to meet a May 3, 2005, deadline."
But none were thrown out because they were BS, huh? I find it difficult, neigh, IMPOSSIBLE to believe 29,000 women were discriminated against by one company in one region in 3 years.
That's about 30 women per day. Yeah, right.
as a whole no. but my point is that, at least in CA, white males will be a minority... may already be...
I get a some every now and then. One I remember was for using a Sprint mobile phone after being promised lots of coverage. It didn't happen and I switched. I got something in the mail but didn't sign up or send it back. It probably amounted to a $2 coupon versus the lawyers getting a new high end mercedes.
Oh geez, I have found myself in at least a half a dozen of these things filed for my convenience by the vultures of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. I must have gotten something on the order of a coupon for a free gallon of gas out of most of the cases, maybe two coupons in one case.
I did once get what I would consider a substantial settlement--in the litigation filed against the NASDAQ market makers for price fixing. It was a long time ago but I think my share was the better part of a thousand bucks. I had to xerox some old brokerage statements and fill out a form, but as I recall it was a remarkably good return on my time.
Still I hate these lawsuits. I suspect that over my lifetime, they have cost me far more than the thousand bucks returned to me in that case.
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