Big Business Bias: Employment Discrimination and Sexual Harassment at Large Corporations

An examination of federal and state court records shows that the vast majority of large corporations throughout the U.S. economy have made payments to plaintiffs in at least one employment discrimination or harassment lawsuit since the beginning of 2000. These include individual and class action cases alleging discrimination based on gender, race, national origin, age, or disability as well as sexual or racial harassment. This report demands that large corporations do more to disclose the full extent to which they are targeted in discrimination and harassment lawsuits; the public availability of this information will put additional pressure on corporations to take steps to eradicate discrimination and harassment from their workplace.