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WalMart ordered to pay $78 million to employees Wal-Mart ordered to pay $78 million
Pennsylvania jury finds No. 1 retailer violated labor laws by forcing employees to work during off-hours, breaks. October 13 2006: 4:10 PM EDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -- A Pennsylvania jury said Friday that Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, must pay $78.5 million in damages to current and former Pennsylvania employees for forcing them to work "off the clock" or during rest breaks. The state jury in Philadelphia on Thursday found in favor of Michelle Braun and Dolores Hummel, former Wal-Mart (up $0.08 to $48.40, Charts) workers, saying the company violated Pennsylvania labor laws by failing to pay employees for the work. After deliberating for about two hours, the jury found in Wal-Mart's favor on the charge that it denied workers meal breaks. It awarded about $2.5 million for off-the-clock working and about $76 million for lost rest breaks between March 1998 and May 2006. Small Marts take on Wal-Marts Hummel said tearfully that she was very happy with the jury's award. "It took a lot of courage for me to go against Wal-Mart," said Hummel, who worked for the company for 10 years and left in 2002. Mike Donovan, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said the jury's verdict was "a home run. They awarded everything we asked for," he said. "The message of today's verdict to large retailers is that they can't say one thing to their employees and do another," Donovan said. Neal Manne, an attorney for Wal-Mart, said he "obviously disagrees" with the jury's verdict and its award of damages. "I'm confident there will be an appeal," he said, but declined to specify the grounds for one. In December, a California jury ruled that Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Ark., should pay $172 million in damages and compensation to about 116,000 current and former employees for denying meal breaks. Plaintiffs in the 2001 California lawsuit claimed that Wal-Mart had failed to pay hourly employees for missed or interrupted meal breaks. Wal-Mart has said it took steps to ensure meal breaks for employees, including technology to shut down cash registers if cashiers do not respond to alerts for breaks. | |
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Sweet! | |
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REDFEATHERS said: I know secrets...spill 'em! | |
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1FRO said: Sweet!
 it's a start! | |
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IrresistibleB1tch said: REDFEATHERS said: I know secrets...spill 'em! hmm.. lol, I darent.. will just say they were a customer of mine and they can be a  really.. I dont know what I say can be taken so serious I will have a  me.. so I am [Edited 10/13/06 14:27pm] | |
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IrresistibleB1tch said: Long, but great article was here... Plaintiffs in the 2001 California lawsuit claimed that Wal-Mart had failed to pay hourly employees for missed or interrupted meal breaks. Wal-Mart has said it took steps to ensure meal breaks for employees, including technology to shut down cash registers if cashiers do not respond to alerts for breaks. Wal-Mart thinks it's so clever...yeah, they'll put the technology into the cash registers, then bully their employees into over-riding it to work through their breaks. Don't get me started! Big corporations are the devil...I'll stop now or I'll end up in P&R!!! :firedup: I'm firmly planted in denial |
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Lee Scott earnings for 2005: $27,207,799
The Walton family contributes less than 1% of their earnings to charity The Walton family contributed $6,000 to the associate in critical need fund. The associates contributed 5million to the fund. Each of the Walton are worth 18billion each.  walmart | |
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IrresistibleB1tch said: 1FRO said: Sweet!
it's a start! honestly i think it only hurts the associates capping wages getting rid of merit raises making it harder to recieve a bonus it;s not hurting them they just pass that shit on to us. when i started there the first year my bonus was over a thousand bucks as just a lowly associate last year it was 300. i was glad to even get that. | |
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Yesssss, fuck them bitches. All you others say Hell Yea!!  | |
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Nothinbutjoy said: IrresistibleB1tch said: Long, but great article was here... Plaintiffs in the 2001 California lawsuit claimed that Wal-Mart had failed to pay hourly employees for missed or interrupted meal breaks. Wal-Mart has said it took steps to ensure meal breaks for employees, including technology to shut down cash registers if cashiers do not respond to alerts for breaks. Wal-Mart thinks it's so clever...yeah, they'll put the technology into the cash registers, then bully their employees into over-riding it to work through their breaks. Don't get me started! Big corporations are the devil...I'll stop now or I'll end up in P&R!!! :firedup: yeah, did you get the sense that with that "new technology", they were actually blaming the employees for not taking a break?! | |
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heyduckie said: Lee Scott earnings for 2005: $27,207,799
The Walton family contributes less than 1% of their earnings to charity The Walton family contributed $6,000 to the associate in critical need fund. The associates contributed 5million to the fund. Each of the Walton are worth 18billion each. walmarti've heard those figures before. unbefrigginlievable! | |
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2freaky4church1 said: Yesssss, fuck them bitches.
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