Wal-Mart to pay $172mil to employees

[hosmer]

"The world's largest retailer was ordered to pay $57 million in general damages and $115 million in punitive damages to about 116,000 current and former California employees for violating a 2001 state law that requires employers to give 30-minute, unpaid lunch breaks to employees who work at least six hours"

Wal-Mart pw0n3d




my brother used to work for them at night unloading trucks...

 

[Battle Pope]

pwnt

state laws CAN override federal laws if the state law is more beneficial to the employee.

 

[BigJ]

Hah. In washington the mandate for a 30 is 5 hours.

 

[micah]

172 million is pennies to walmart lol.

theres 3 stores in this town, the one i used to work at made 110 mil a year by itself.