Thursday, May 31, 2007

CORRECTED: GE employee sues, charging gender discrimination

(Reuters) - In papers prepared for filing in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, Lorene Schaefer charged the world's second-largest company by market capitalization with gender discrimination. The suit also names 13 GE officers and directors, including Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt.




Her suit, which is seeking class-action status, seeks $500 million in damages for a class of about 1,500 GE women workers, according to a statement issued by her attorneys, David Sanford and Steven Wittels of Sanford Wittels & Heisler LP.


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