Sandia Lab ‘Infected’ With Sex Bias in Pay and Promotions, Suit Says

The corporate culture at Sandia National Laboratories is “infected with gender bias” as a result of policies and practices that discriminate against female employees, a lawsuit filed in federal court in New Mexico alleges (Kennicott v. Sandia Corp., D.N.M., No. 1:17-cv-00188, class complaint filed 2/7/17).

The systematic discriminatory practices in pay and promotions are largely the result of an invalid and arbitrary “stack ranking” performance-evaluation system in which only a fixed percentage of workers may be assigned higher rankings, according to the class action filed Feb. 7 against Sandia Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. ...