Month: May 2011

A class action suit alleging that Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals discriminated against women employees has been expanded. Just days after the one year anniversary of winning a $250 million verdict for female sales representatives at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the law firm of Sanford Wittels & Heisler (SWH) recently filed a nearly identical class action on behalf of female sales representatives at Bayer…

Less than a year after wining a $250 million trial victory against Novartis for discriminating against nearly 6,000 female sales representatives, lawyers at Sanford Heisler filed similar class discrimination claims two months ago against a new defendant, Bayer. The allegations strongly mirrored those against Novartis, but Bayer could point to at least one big difference: The proposed Bayer class included…

In the memo, which was posted as a blog on Novartis\’s internal website and was seen by Dow Jones Newswires, Jimenez said the staff dismissals came after he had visited several local markets, where some senior staff failed to live up to the company\’s internal code of conduct. Jimenez, who took over as CEO last year from long-standing Daniel Vasella,…