Walmart Sued for Gender, Race Discrimination in Iowa by EEOC

Walmart Inc. allegedly violated federal law when it gave a Black female employee an unsanitary lactation space based on her race and also failed to promote her due to stereotypes about mothers with small children, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleged in a lawsuit announced Friday.

The Ottumwa, Iowa, Walmart did not promote the woman to a management position on the assumption she would not remain with the company because of her newborn, according to the EEOC. The retailer also gave her an inferior, unsanitary storage closet to express her breast milk, even though it had it had provided ...