Four female financial consultants filed a national class action lawsuit Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, charging sex discrimination at Smith Barney, the retail brokerage arm of Citigroup, which is the nation’s largest financial institution.
The lawsuit, Fassbender Amochaev v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., d/b/a Smith Barney, Case No. C051-298 (PJH) (N.D. Cal.), charges that […]

Shirley “Rae” Ellis, a Costco assistant warehouse manager, filed a national sex discrimination class action lawsuit against Costco on Tuesday, accusing the company of discriminating against women in promotions to store manager.
The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in San Francisco, charges that Costco imposes a “glass ceiling” that denies women promotions to high […]

Morgan Stanley agreed on Monday to pay $54 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf Allison Schieffelin, a former convertible bond sales representative, and as many as 340 woman.
As part of the settlement, Morgan Stanley, which did not admit to any wrongdoing, agreed to spend […]

Morgan Stanley has backed out of a potential settlement of a federal lawsuit accusing it of engaging in a discrimination pattern that prevented most women employees from advancing, a lawyer for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Thursday.
The suit, seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, was filed by the EEOC in September 2001 on […]