Labor & Employment » AutoZone Hit With Record 5M Jury Verdict In Gender Discrimination Case

AutoZone Hit With Record $185M Jury Verdict In Gender Discrimination Case

November 20, 2014

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A federal jury in California hit AutoZone with $185 million in punitive damages in a single-employee gender discrimination case, on top of more than $872,000 the plaintiff  was awarded for compensatory damages. The employee compared the number of male managers to female managers in the San Diego area in a complaint alleging AutoZone discriminated in its promotion system, imposing an unspoken glass ceiling on female employees, and in her case compounded their culpable behavior with a scheme that set her up for termination. “[T]he case is a good reminder of the potentially devastating costs at stake even in a single-employee discrimination case,” says Holt Hendrick with Barnes & Thornburg.

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