Wal-Mart began a commitment making a change in the consumer’s lives. As the family owned store grew into a large corporation to the delight of the stockholders and future beneficiaries. Unemployment rate falls, competition for retail worker rises, and stronger spending by consumers could affect increased wages. As Wal-Mart announces rising the pay from $8 to $10 by 2016, could be a PR move to precede the President Obama’s to increase the federal wage. If we challenge the world’s largest retailer to embrace a moral duty to the employees, these changes could help eliminate a portion of its unethical standards seen today. The first Wal-Mart store opened in 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas, dedicating to making a difference in the lives of their
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Unfortunately, $10 an hour is not enough to raise many workers out of poverty, especially when there is no assurances that the employees will normally get the hours the employees need to maintain full-time status. Another issue is that Wal-Mart wages not only hurt its workers, it hurts our economy as well. However, a Forbes article has information that many states have increased their minimum wage to $10 an hour, because President Obama has stated he wants to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10. It makes one wonder if Wal-Mart is just getting ahead of the state-mandated wage increase in order to make Wal-Mart to look good in the eyes of the consumer. According to an author, Robert Prowse; an article in the East Tennessean News, stated “Wal-Mart’s policy of discrimination had received the largest class action lawsuit in history, as Wal-Mart had been accused of discrimination against women, minorities and people with disabilities.” Low-wages are not good for any worker and women are especially hurt as they usually paid well under their male counterpart. Female workers are not provided real opportunities and are disproportionately placed in lower-paying
Unfortunately, $10 an hour is not enough to raise many workers out of poverty, especially when there is no assurances that the employees will normally get the hours the employees need to maintain full-time status. Another issue is that Wal-Mart wages not only hurt its workers, it hurts our economy as well. However, a Forbes article has information that many states have increased their minimum wage to $10 an hour, because President Obama has stated he wants to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10. It makes one wonder if Wal-Mart is just getting ahead of the state-mandated wage increase in order to make Wal-Mart to look good in the eyes of the consumer. According to an author, Robert Prowse; an article in the East Tennessean News, stated “Wal-Mart’s policy of discrimination had received the largest class action lawsuit in history, as Wal-Mart had been accused of discrimination against women, minorities and people with disabilities.” Low-wages are not good for any worker and women are especially hurt as they usually paid well under their male counterpart. Female workers are not provided real opportunities and are disproportionately placed in lower-paying