by Girish Anand | Dec 4, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
Nabbed again! Wal-Mart has agreed to fork over $40 million to employees past and present at its Massachusetts outlets after settling a 2001 lawsuit over abuse of time-card data, fudging on overtime and denying employees break time. Employees who worked at those...
by Girish Anand | Nov 3, 2009 | EEOC, Federal Labor Law, OSHA, State Labor Law
Wal-Mart has agreed to, and a judge approved, a plan to settle unpaid-wage lawsuits for up to $85 million. The lawsuits, 30 in all that were combined into one before U.S. District Judge Philip M. Pro in Las Vegas, alleged time clock manipulation and denial of rest...
by Girish Anand | Mar 23, 2009 | Random Musings
I’ve written previously about the card-check union organizing provision in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) now before Congress. It turns out that this is the same method, gathering signatures, that Chinese workers used to set up unions in every Wal-Mart...