Comments on: Wal-Mart Loses Lawsuit Over Work Breaks

Minnesota Judge Rules Superstore Forced Employees To Work Off The Clock

[vortex1001]

Wl Mart sells *** which is appropriate seeing as the people shopping there are trash

[roach9703]

Walmart sells better products and services than most retailers. I find that Wal-Mart is more honest than most business. However, they must fix their labor problems. This is INEXCUSABLE. Forcing peole to work off the the clock is also a great way to hike your workmen''s compensation insurance costs as well,not very bright people! We the people have to do our best to make sure that corporations obey labor law. Wal-Mart is providing good evidence for the need for collective bargaining. Better internal auditing of labor practices is neeed or else Wal-Mart will find itself in much more serious trouble.

[Marie Zarankevich]

What you are all describing is called slavery. -- Any work setting that disregards your human needs, safety, or necessary comfort is abusive, and should not be acceptable according to the work standards of the Labor Department of your state. -- Some of the conditions described are probably already breaking some laws, and should be investigated. -- The labor laws were made to protect people from abusive employers. -- Check with your Labor Dept..

[caldwellptr]

As Leona Helmsley would have said, "Only the little people shop at Wal-mart."

[timdgrim]

Sam Walton would have never run WalMart like his kids do. He probably wouldn''t even want to be associated with it today. It should be called GLIB-Mart (Greedy Little Inheriting Bas**rds!)

[triplet-man]

DaVicar2 - Hello?

As for Wally Mart paying employees NOT to work Read the article again. They were working OFF the clock (NO PAY) for the rich to get richer.

Now if you want to work for free Go for it. But I don''t.

[triplet-man]

The "theory" is - INSTEAD of a Trickle Down economy (where the poor and middle class get whatever happens to fall out of the RICH pockets - I.E. Trickled ON)

Why don''t we try trickle UP? Where the American worker has a good job good wages and puts that money back into the economy - Like cars, boats, houses, trips - ya know? FEEDS the industries that allows the Rich to get money that way? Trickle UP ?

Instead of the MEGA rich having "extravagant" boats, cars, houses and lives WE WOULD ALL benefit and have better lives.

So let''s fight for better wages - take Walmart to court EVERY time there is injustice. Or any other corporation who steals from the poor to fill their pockets.

[enriquecaliente]

Every-time a Corporation talks about shareholder value, the cut the work force, close down branches, cut pay raises. But if you look closely you Will see that that the only share holders who got any value were all of Senior Management and above. Bonuses up the kazoo, and pay increases. Bin Laden is not our enemy, the Corporations are. The need to get rid of the middle class. We''re a thorn in their side. The want only two classes. Themselves, the Rich and the poor. Oh and those who are willing to bend over and lick their boots while taking it up the a$$. First they moved all of our factories out, to Japan. When that got too expensive, they moved them to Korea and Mexico. China and India are now the place to move American jobs to. When they become too expensive, they will move them to Africa. And when they become too expensive, they will move them back here. Because by that time, we''ll be living in huts.

[triplet-man]

When you only work a 40 hr week and anything OVER that is overtime i.e. more money.

Thank a UNION member.

[fstop100]

Walmart is an enemy of Americans

They offer shoddy Chinese products and refuse to pay decent wages.

What happened to supporting the country you live in?

[moneybags77]

Shut up you liberals. I would shop at Walmart but am afraid that my rich neighbors would think I am poor and gossip about it.

[whitemale08]

Back in the 70''s

workers worked from 9 to 5 with an hour lunch paid.

Lunch soon was cut back to 1/2 hour unpaid lunch to now 20min unpaid.

Breaks went from paid 15min in the morning and 15min in the afternoon.

This when we had better economic conditions under an unfair demonization of the Carter Administration.

Reagan comes in and changes all of that and introduces the NEW WORLD ORDER Globization con that busted up unions and sent Americans into a race for the bottom that ends in Serfdom.

Thanks Ronny.

[mark46n]

You know what always amazes me is everyone I talk too simply does not like Walmart because of the way they treat their employees but every time I go by a Walmart the parking lots are always full and these same people are still shopping at Wally World. People need to quit being hypocritical and start shopping at K-Mart or Walmart''s other competitors again. I''m on my way to K-Mart.

[a8151947]

I see all the attorney are out today. Only thing is, that all that counts is the Judge told the no good compane to pay up. For you that think he is wrong, go to work and don''t take breaks and don''t take your lunch and work off the clock. I know some companies that will let you work for them. If you can work with no breaks and no lunch. PM PM

[whatsup49]

in some states, breaks are not considered a "right" for wokers, meaning an employer does not have to give you a break. and lunch breaks are only mandated if employees work at least 5 hours.

[gkc99]

Another concern is the complicity of state and local government agencies is Walmart''s abusive policies. Walmart doesn''t like to pay unemployment insurance, but also doesn''t like any employees whose seniority is such they might have to be paid as high as $10/hr. So Walmart arranges to have such people terminated for cause, so unemployment can be denied. Local administrative law judges play along, giving all the benefit of the doubt to falsified Walmart testimony in administrative hearings over denial of unemployment compensation.

The Oregon Dept. of Labor is a key case in point. While Oregonians complain mightily about Walmart, their bureaucrats help Walmart abuse employees.

[noko76]

How do I get ahold of Justin Perl? LOL I worked for Pinnacle Corp. and we were constantly screwed out of our breaks. In fact, they deducted the half hour out of our checks in spite of the fact that we did not get our lunch break. We worked 8 1/2 hrs. but only received pay for 8 because they automatically deducted the half hour out of our checks. There were many nights I sat in dispatch for 8 1/2 hrs. without so much as a bathroom break. Lots of people get screwed in their workplace. With all the casinos Pinnacle owns I know they can afford to let their employees have their breaks. The excuse to us always was, "we are too understaffed, there is no one available to give you a break." Big corporations suck. They only look out for themselves.

[triplet-man]

We aren''t doing anyone in America any favors by shopping at Walmart.
They aren''t really trying to do YOU any favors by ignoring labor laws and thinking that the people who work for them "can''t do anything about it" - because they can''t afford an attorney.
Good for these workers and others that are fighting this injustice.

[triplet-man]

When Walmarts meat cutters (butchers) tried to become UNION members in Oklahoma, Walmart "did away" with their butchers. Meat is shipped from a central processing/packaging plant, and then placed on the shelves. It''s rediculous that they would DUPE good Americans out of good jobs.
Additionally For anyone who likes the "SELF checkouts" Keep in mind that is taking away someone elses job too.
I don''t think this is what Sam Walton had in mind for his America.