Fellow blogger comments on George’s snide remarks about Wal-Mart class action

Catherine Collingwood maintains a fine blog; it’s listed on my blogroll at right under Blogs, Labor/Employment/HR. She writes about a number of her other interests, but as someone working in HR she often posts thoughtful pieces on HR and benefits issues.

Yesterday she wrote this post: Wal-Mart class action: more than recovery

Catherine says:

Mr. Lenard asks a good question about the rates of actual recovery, but I don’t think that is the important issue here. A consent order from a class-action lawsuit can have sweeping policy and procedure changes; this does not happen with non-class-action lawsuits.

In other words, the benefits from a class-action lawsuit extend well beyond recovery [by "recovery" she means the typically puny money damages paid to class members]. Read more

I responded with a comment (click replies in her post — or click here and scroll down), and we dialogued a bit.

Catherine, thanks for reading and keeping me on my toes.

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