(Bloomberg Law) -- Amazon.com Inc. pays women less than male employees performing the same or comparable work, a class lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Seattle charges.

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The lawsuit also alleges that female employees experience systemic discrimination in promotions based on sex and that Amazon retaliates against those who complain about the bias. It was filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington by Caroline Wilmuth, Katherine Schomer, and Erin Combs, who seek to represent “all women who worked for Amazon in a Covered Position at any time from three years before the filing” of the suit and when the allegations are resolved.

“We do expect that there will be many others signing on, we have already spoken to numerous other women,” Cassandra Lenning, a partner at Outten & Golden LLP, which represents the proposed class said on Monday. “We do have some witness affidavits already and we expect that after filing this, other women will come forward.”

The pay bias typically begins at the hiring stage, as Amazon uses “common compensation-setting policies across its organization”...

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