OSAKA -- The Osaka District Court on Monday rejected a 160 million yen damages suit filed against Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. by two employees who claimed they were discriminated against in terms of salary and advancement because they are women.
The court also dismissed the plaintiffs' claim that the government violated the Equal Employment Opportunity Law by refusing their request to mediate the dispute in 1994.
Katsumi Nishimura, 52, started at Sumitomo Electric as a clerical worker in 1966, and Eiko Shirafuji, 49, started in the same position in 1969.