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May 26, 2004
Wal-Mart News Again
WSJ.com: Big Retailers Face Overtime Suits As Bosses Do More 'Hourly' Work [sub req'd]:
Some of the nation's biggest and most cost-sensitive retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., RadioShack Corp. and Dollar General Corp., are battling a raft of lawsuits accusing them of using low-level managers to do the work of regular employees, in order to avoid paying overtime.
Wal-Mart, a retailing giant with about 3,500 stores and 1.2 million workers in the U.S., and a well-known focus on lean margins, already faces 30 overtime-related suits on behalf of hourly workers in 28 states. Assistant managers who filed suit in Michigan and California, seeking back pay and damages say they spend much of their days on the same tasks assigned to hourly employees entitled to overtime.
It's obvious at this point that Wal-Mart has a corporate culture devoted to low costs no matter the... costs.
Posted by sam at May 26, 2004 11:41 AM