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Lawyers are making Walmart raise prices now goddam it.
Yahoo NewsCalifornia Jury Awards $207 Million to Wal-Mart Workers Who Claim They Were Denied Lunch Breaks
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A California jury on Thursday awarded $207 million to thousands of employees at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. who claimed they were illegally denied lunch breaks.
The world's largest retailer was ordered to pay $57 million in general damages and $150 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.
$207 million
Walmart had sales of $18 billion last year and a net income of $10 billion.
Lawyers are making Walmart raise prices now goddam it.
Their revenue (sales) from the last 12 months was actually $305b.
I'm guessing the award was fairly close to Walmart's profits in California that year - not sure why you consider that "peanuts".
Nothing wrong with peanuts.
Lawyers are making Walmart treat their employees with more respect now goddam it.
And make Walmart comply with California law, goddam it.
That must be a state law - because I work part-time for HEB and we only get a 15-minute break when we work 6 hours. And sometimes our breaks are an hour late if it gets real busy.violating a 2001 state law that requires employers to give 30-minute, unpaid lunch breaks to employees who work at least six hours.
I used to work for Chachos when I was a teen and they only had 12 hour shifts with NO break at all, and u know how bussy Chachos is. I don't know if they still do that, but it wasn't against the law here though.
It should be a law, even though I personally didn't need a break once I got into management. But some ppl do.
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