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Former employee sues Apple for discrimination
Shaune Patterson, a former employee who worked as a human resources compensation consultant, has filed a discrimination against Apple Computer alleging that she was wrongfully terminated after she complained of being paid less than her counterparts. The suit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco.
The amended complaint, filed May 16 2005, includes claims of sexual orientation and genetic characteristic discrimination and alleges that an Apple manager referred in a memo to her weight, sexual orientation and her race in a derogatory manner.
Patterson is being represented by Waukeen McCoy. McCoy represented another former Apple employee in 2001 who sought $40 million in damages over alleged racial discrimination.
[via PR Newswire]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
leojsoap said 7:42PM on 8-04-2005
ouch, I hope that manager is fired, stupid things like this shouldn't be going on anywhere.
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Blacky said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
Things like that are only possible in the USA. 40 Million because of discrimination... It's not as if that other employee would have EVER earned 40 Million bucks in his ENTIRE life.
In Germany you'd get - in the best case - an "adequate" compensation. But definitely nothing as disproportionate as 40 Million Bucks.
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Colin said 2:04PM on 6-21-2005
Yea, in Germany can't you also pretty much never get fired from you job. That's gotta be good for productivity.
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madtracer said 10:49AM on 6-27-2005
and yet somehow the germans make amazing products like Porsche, Mercedez, BMW, Leica cameras/Zeiss lenses, to name a very few things. somehow the germans DO indeed seem awfully productive. use your head before you make sarcastic comments, only to make yourself look like a dumb american.
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Colin said 2:04PM on 6-21-2005
Point made, and I apologize for the sarcasm. My poorly made point was supposed to be that while America has its faults ($40 million for something like this is ridiculous), Germany is far from perfect as well.
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bryan said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
but the $40 million was by a previous employee not the one in the story
to be honest if those kinda things did go on then she has every right to seek compensation
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Travis Beard said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
But also in germany you have a hard time getting the job in the first place.. with this high unemployment.
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Bhavin Patel said 4:19PM on 6-16-2005
People sue over the worst of things, this is not the worst but is discrimination worth 40 million? I don't think so, she should just sue as to how much she would of gotten if she was payed as much as her counter parts. America is going down the hole with worthless suing and nonsense.
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