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The grocery chain raised its minimum wage earlier this year.
The film features archival footage of Walmart CEO Lee Scott praising the corporation at a large employee convention, intercut with interviews designed to undercut Scott's statements. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The documentary argues that Walmart underpays its workers, paying them an average of $17,000 per year (in 2005 dollars). [ 7 ]
Walmart said the bonus plan for associates rewards both performance and long-term employees. The company pays a minimum hourly wage that starts from $14, less than the $15 starting wage at Amazon ...
Workers in the highest-paid 25%—those making $79,500 or above—had the largest drop in hours worked. The lowest-paid, on the other hand, are working more. View this interactive chart on Fortune.com
In 2000, Walmart paid $50 million to settle a class-action suit that asserted that 69,000 current and former Walmart employees in Colorado had been forced to work off-the-clock. [69] The company has also faced similar lawsuits in other states, including Pennsylvania, [70] Oregon, and [71] Minnesota. [72]
Walmart is raising the pay for more than 565,000 store employees, working in its frontend, food and consumable, and general merchandise workgroups. Walmart raising wages at least a $1 an hour for ...
The most blatant form of wage theft is for an employee to not be paid for work done. An employee being asked to work overtime, working through breaks, or being asked to report early and/or leave late without pay is being subjected to wage theft. This is sometimes justified as displacing a paid meal break without guaranteeing meal break time. In ...
Wake County Superintendent Catty Moore will request an increase in local funding this year to raise school employee pay, including the minimum salaries for its lowest-paid workers. ... Walmart and ...