Walmart is a company that is almost making their employees slave's! Employees are told to work even while they are off the clock, Mark Curless filed a lawsuit against the world's largest retailer because recently discovered memos show it has deleted thousands of hours of time worked from payroll records in a practice known as "time shaving," according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court and assigned to Judge Alan Johnson in Cheyenne. WalMart Stores Inc. has cheated its employees for time worked, including overtime hours. Now does that sound like how they present themselves on their commercials for their great morals, and their great care for how they treat their employees. No it does not.
Walmart has so many lawsuits filed against them by employees it's sad. Doing research I found some of the reasons the lawsuits were filed.
*Altering employees' records to make it appear as if their workdays ended one minute after their meal periods ended, which effectively denied them three or four hours of pay.
*Deleting overtime hours over 40 hours.
*Deleting employee time card punches so they would not be paid for an entire day or afternoon of work.
*Altering records to make it appear employees took meal periods when they did not.
*Failing to pay employees for all reported time.
Oh, and they don't offer benefits on top of all that, does that sound like a company we need or that we really want to keep in America.
In China, Honduras and 48 other countries around the world they have sweatshops where there are children ages 10 and up to elderly people that have to stay and work for hours being physically and mentally abused, Some of the abuses in foreign factories that produce goods for Walmart include:
* Forced overtime
* Locked bathrooms
* Starvation wages
* Pregnancy tests
* Denial of access to health care
* Workers fired and blacklisted if they try to defend their rights
And we wonder why so many people hate Americans, I mean just look at what they do, how can you treat people like that. The National Labor Committee reported in September 1999 that the Kathie Lee clothing label (made for Walmart by Caribbean Apparel, Santa Ana, El Salvador) conducted sweatshop conditions of forced overtime. Workers hours were Monday to Friday from 6:50 a.m. to 6:10 p.m., and Saturday from 6:50 a.m. to 5:40 p.m. There are occasional shifts to 9:40 p.m. It is common for the cutting and packing departments to work 20-hour shifts from 6:50 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Anyone unable or refusing to work the overtime hours will be suspended and fined, and upon repeat "offenses" they will be fired. This factory is in an American Free Trade Zone. Walmart regularly says it does not tolerate child labor or forced or prison labor, but when it comes to walking the walk the company refuses to reveal its Chinese contractors and will not allow independent, unannounced inspections of its contractors’ facilities.
But I can't say knowing all the facts that I'm not going to shop at Walmart. I mean yeah its awful but Walmart does make it such a convenience to go shopping for food, clothes, shoes and so many other things. I love the convenience of Walmart, but I hate how they make us Americans look.
So in closing this paper, I would have to say Walmart is a prick in our society, it causes more harm than anything else and I can't believe how we just stood back and let it get so bad. Walmart is a rich mans loop hole, a way for him to make money. If you think about it honestly it shows just how money hungry America has become, and that might just be the reason that our economy has become so bad, because we have those who would do practically anything for money.
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