In April, a Rome, Georgia, Sam’s Club store employee sued the company and its parent corporation, Walmart Inc., claiming she was wrongfully fired in retaliation for expressing her concerns to the company’s ethics hotline about pregnancy- and race-based discrimination.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, seemed rare in that it involved allegations that a worker was fired for complaining to an ethics hotline about discrimination she faced on the job. But Ashley Wilson Clark, one of two employment lawyers interviewed by the Daily Report, said it’s not as unusual as you might think.

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