GE Lawyer Sues Company Claiming Gender Bias BRIEFING:
June 1, 2007
General Electric’s top lawyer in its transportation division filed a $500 million sex-bias lawsuit against the company and its chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt, after she was demoted. Lorene Schaefer, general counsel at GE Transportation, said in her complaint that the company, based in Fairfield, Connecticut, paid its female executives and attorneys less than their male colleagues and did not promote them at the same rate. The lawsuit seeks class- action status on behalf of 1,500 women.
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