Secondly, how poorly Walmart workers are treated is proof enough that the company is bad for America. Walmart is known to take advantage of their employees by offering them low wages, no overtime, poor health care, and are disrespectful of employees race along with gender. This corporation has been proven to guilt workers into working more for no pay leaving the employee with little to no money monthly. They simply tell the employees that they do not know what they are going to do because of the lack of staff and the amount of work they have to do; they often infer that the worker should stay on duty no matter what time there shift ends in order to get the job done without pay. Many workers had gone in on days off in order to get work done
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This shows how horrible the system really is for employees, they were basically treated as slaves. Another man explained how the saying “do more with less” was being used by Walmart and their meaning was associates do more and the amount they are going to get paid is less. Walmart has had many class action law suits against them, currently 31 Walmart faces court cases in 31 different states for wage and hour abuses potentially involving hundreds of thousands of workers because of the amount of unpaid overtime they cheated employees out of throughout the years. It is estimated that in 2005 Walmart employees in Texas were cheated out of a hundred and fifty million dollars. Pervious Managers of the superstore had explained how distract managers would come in and teach them how to cheat workers out of overtime …show more content…
Walmart uses state programs as their health care, the less they pay them the less they have to give them. When staff members asked management about better health insurance many often replied with “there are programs out there, go use your tax payer’s dollars”. It was shown that in Florida they have more employees than families eligible for welfare than any other company. Even in 2005 it was recorded that in Connecticut alone there were 824 Walmart workers that have children enrolled in a state health care program. When a family uses Walmart as a health care plan they can not afford to live decently even as a full time employee. Although it may be marked as the company having 74% of employees as full time, they consider full time employment to be twenty-eight hours a week to be full time which works out to a stating wage under 12,000 a year. Federal poverty level for a family of four is 17,650 while the average Walmart worker that is played hourly makes 13,861 a
This shows how horrible the system really is for employees, they were basically treated as slaves. Another man explained how the saying “do more with less” was being used by Walmart and their meaning was associates do more and the amount they are going to get paid is less. Walmart has had many class action law suits against them, currently 31 Walmart faces court cases in 31 different states for wage and hour abuses potentially involving hundreds of thousands of workers because of the amount of unpaid overtime they cheated employees out of throughout the years. It is estimated that in 2005 Walmart employees in Texas were cheated out of a hundred and fifty million dollars. Pervious Managers of the superstore had explained how distract managers would come in and teach them how to cheat workers out of overtime …show more content…
Walmart uses state programs as their health care, the less they pay them the less they have to give them. When staff members asked management about better health insurance many often replied with “there are programs out there, go use your tax payer’s dollars”. It was shown that in Florida they have more employees than families eligible for welfare than any other company. Even in 2005 it was recorded that in Connecticut alone there were 824 Walmart workers that have children enrolled in a state health care program. When a family uses Walmart as a health care plan they can not afford to live decently even as a full time employee. Although it may be marked as the company having 74% of employees as full time, they consider full time employment to be twenty-eight hours a week to be full time which works out to a stating wage under 12,000 a year. Federal poverty level for a family of four is 17,650 while the average Walmart worker that is played hourly makes 13,861 a