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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Establishes Employment Practices Advisory Panel |
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| Published on August 21, 2006 |
As part of its ongoing efforts to foster diversity and equal employment opportunities, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced the establishment of an Employment Practices Advisory Panel and the appointment of the Panel’s first two members, who are highly-respected national experts.The Panel will work with Wal-Mart’s senior management to develop and implement progressive enhancements to equal employment opportunity and diversity initiatives for the nation’s largest private workforce.
One of the Panel’s members is Vilma Martinez, a partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, who has an extensive history as a Latina civil rights activist and was president and general counsel for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund for nine years.Martinez specializes in employment discrimination and commercial matters at the federal and state levels.
“The employment relationship is central to the well-being of most of us and our families,” said Martinez.“I feel privileged to have the opportunity to help our nation’s largest private employer meet its equal employment opportunity goals.”
Wal-Mart’s creation of the Advisory Panel comes on the heels of the company’s recent release of its 2005 Equal Employment Opportunity data showing that Wal-Mart’s workforce of more than 1.3 million United States associates consists of more than 150,000 Hispanics, 225,000 African-Americans and 815,000 women.The mission of the Advisory Panel will complement practices, supplier relationships and community outreach programs.
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