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"The state report shows that while healthcare reform has extended coverage to thousands of people in Massachusetts, many employers still rely on state programs to provide healthcare benefits for their workers.... Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, is the top company on the list. The state found 5,021 Wal-Mart employees used state health coverage at a cost of nearly $14 million in the 12 months ended June 30, 2007.... --more--"
Also see: The Sovereign Nation of Wal-Mart
Isn't it nice to know that YOUR PREMIUMS are SUBSIDIZING Wal-Mart's profits, Bay-Staters?And that they were CHEATING WORKERS at the SAME TIME?
"Wal-Mart will pay $40m to workers; Settlement is biggest in Bay State history" by Dave Copeland, Globe Correspondent | December 3, 2009
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has agreed to pay $40 million to as many as 87,500 current and former employees in Massachusetts, the largest wage-and-hour class-action settlement in the state’s history.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in 2001, accused the retailer of denying workers rest and meal breaks, refusing to pay overtime, and manipulating time cards to lower employees’ pay....
That's strange because their advertisements on the TV are so heartwarming.
The Massachusetts case is similar to many others that have been brought against the retail behemoth by employees across the country, most alleging that the Bentonville, Ark.-based company violated laws by requiring employees to work through breaks, to work beyond their regular shifts, and similar practices. Wal-Mart has denied the allegations....
Oh, so it is a PATTERN with them!!!!
This isn’t the first wage case settlement for Wal-Mart in Massachusetts.
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They DIDN'T LEARN the FIRST TIME?
Then WHY WOULD THEY NOW?
In September, the retailer settled an investigation of violations of state meal-break policies, agreeing to pay $3 million. The state attorney general investigated after workers reported they were required to work though meal breaks, take breaks after having worked more than six hours, or to cut such breaks short, according to the state.... Workers approached yesterday by The Boston Globe at a Wal-Mart parking lot in Raynham declined to comment on the settlement....
Those SMART WORKERS!!!!!
Sean Blais, who worked at a Wal-Mart in Weymouth for a year before he was fired for texting at work in July: “You got a 15-minute, unpaid break, but you usually had to fight to get it.’’
No wonder the workers are always surly when I step in one.
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