necessarily the company's policies as a whole. Consequently, female Walmart employees in Texas argued that their

new suit would challenge the management of a “discrete group of regional district and store managers.” They

claimed that these managers made biased pay and promotion decisions. However, in 2013, a federal district court

rejected a smaller California class action suit against the company.

On other issues, Walmart made the news again in 2013 when the National Labor Relations Board found Walmart

guilty of illegally penalizing and firing workers who took part in labor protests and strikes. Walmart paid $11.7

million in back wages and compensation damages to women in Kentucky who were denied jobs due to their sex.
And in 2020, a sex-based hiring discrimination lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC), in which the EEOC alleged that Walmart conducted a physical ability test (known as the PAT) as
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