A former attorney in the Walt Disney Co.’s legal affairs department says she was laid off for complaining about disparate gender treatment in the workplace, including being paid less than a male colleague despite consistently outperforming him.

Alisa Clairet’s Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit alleges violations of the state’s Equal Pay Act, disparate treatment based on sex, retaliation, failure to pay wages due to a discharged employee and violation of the state’s unfair competition law. She seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages as well as either reinstatement or front pay in lieu of rehiring.

A Disney representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment on the suit filed Aug. 15.

Clairet was hired in May 2004 and initially worked for Disney’s Buena Vista Ho

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