This is a story straight out of my home-state, and a pretty entertaining one at that. My mother hates anything with the name “mart” in it, although she doesn’t hate Wal-Mart - or is it Walmart* now? - as much as the big K-Fart. Anyways, I’m sure this will please the hell out of her.
A Minnesota judge ruled that Walmart may have infracted Minnesota labor laws over 2 million times in the past 6 years, calling what Walmart did “dehumanizing”. The infractions include not allowing workers to take break, making employees work through lunch, and working them off of their time shifts involuntarily and without pay. Each infraction is chargable, by law, with up to a $1,000 fine.
2,000,000 x 1,000 = … Add the zeros… (I was never good at math)… oh 2 BILLION Dollars!
Walmart is in some deep doo-doo now… just like Nancy Braun, one of the 4 named plantiffs in the suit:
In several instances no one came in time for her to go to the bathroom. “I would end up soiling myself,” said Braun, now 53 and living in Rochester. “Sometimes I’d have other clothes with me in my locker, or they would say to me, ‘We have clothes in the store you can buy.’”
Sounds like Nancy could use some Depends, or this. All joking aside, you can’t help but feel sorry for the woman and the rest of the people working at Walmart. Besides being labeled as hicks and sillies that aren’t good enough for the real working class America, they’ve got to put up without any food. God forbid no lunch break! Damn you, Walmart (star)!
Can you believe this, though? Walmart may be considering an appeal! How? They are reviewing the Minnesota labor laws and Walmart rules to find any loop holes. Chances are they will find one, and Nancy will be left with her good ol’ Depends (aisle 17), unfortunatly.
[via star tribune]
