Disney Faces Dramatic Escalation In $150M+ Gender Discrimination & Pay Equity Suit
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Fireworks might be about to go off at the Walt Disney Company this Fourth of July weekend, at least legally.
More than four years after Walt Disney Studios staffers LaRonda Rasmussen and Karen Moore first filed a complaint accusing the Mouse House of discriminating against female workers by paying them less than men, attorneys for the duo and other women are today asking a California judge to allow them to turn the matter into a class-action suit.
In a widely redacted filing on the potentially sprawling matter (read it here), plaintiffs’ attorney Lori Andrus and Joseph M.
Sellers and Christine E. Webber of D.C.-based Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll figuratively seek to make up for lost time by cut straight to the chase: Disney systematically pays women in California less than men.
