Sunday, November 19, 2006

Why not Wal-mart?

Wal-Mart Shaving Cited
(Vancouver Sun, Sat., Nov. 18, page D7)

Southfield, Mich. -- Managers at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's
largest retailers, altered payroll records of hourly employees to
reduce their pay and required them to work off the clock, workers in
four U.S. states said in court filings. Wal-Mart pressured managers to
cut labour costs or risk losing their jobs and has ignored internal
warnings since 1989 that hourly employees weren't being paid for all
time worked, employees said this week in court papers filed in Nevada.
The workers, who seek to represent all Wal-Mart and Sam's Club hourly
employees in Nevada, Alaska, Delaware and South Dakota, asked a federal
judge to allow them to sue as a group. The suits are among 20 combined
in U.S. court claiming Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart engaged in
unlawful wage-shaving. The lawsuits, if granted class certification,
would be tried in the individual states.

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