Wal-Mart in Talks to Settle Federal Immigration Probe
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world&#39;s No. 1 retailer, is talks with the US Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to settle an investigation into whether it knowingly hired contractors
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Wal-Mart's softening of its anti-union stance in China is positive and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions is willing to help workers of the world's biggest retailer to unionize, Xinhua news agency said Thursday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is being sued in a federal court by a job applicant who says it discriminates against black employees seeking work as truck drivers, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.
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A Middlesex Superior Court judge in Cambridge has certified a class-action lawsuit filed against Wal-Mart Corp. by workers at its North Attleborough store. The order by Judge Ernest B. Murphy allows more than 55,000 workers nationwide to seek redress as a group, according to San Francisco lawyer Carolyn Beasley Burton, who represents the plaintiffs. The lawsuit alleges that Wal-Mart managers ...
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A request to be filed with the U.S. will seek the apprehension of Gonzalo S&#225;nchez de Lozada to face charges over the killing of protesters. But Washington may be in no hurry to comply
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Eli Lilly and Co  is in settlement talks with federal prosecutors regarding a civil and criminal investigation into Lilly's marketing of its top-selling schizophrenia drug Zyprexa, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it faced glitches with its gift-card verification system on the day after Christmas, when a large number of its customers came to its stores for post-Christmas shopping, but resolved them on the same day.
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Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has been given the right to appeal a US judge's order giving the go-ahead for a huge sex discrimination lawsuit.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's  biggest retailer, gave ground to Chinese pressure Tuesday and  said it would allow its workers to set up a trade union.
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A federal judge gave undocumented Wal-Mart Stores contract workers the right to seek out colleagues and form a group to collectively sue the company for unpaid overtime and minimum wage violations.
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A federal lawsuit alleges Wal-Mart Stores Inc. discriminates against blacks seeking truck-driving jobs, a contention the world's largest retailer denies.
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SHANGHAI -- Apple Computer Inc. said yesterday it is working to resolve a dispute over alleged labor abuses by an iPod manufacturer in China.
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The House Financial Services Committee plans a March 22 hearing on whether to close the federal banking loophole that allows retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Home Depot Inc. to operate banks, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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In the debate over what to do about the growing number of working people in the United States with little or no health insurance, no company may be taking more heat than the country&#39;s largest employer, Wal-Mart Stores.
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The company says it is discussing a settlement with the Justice Department.
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Time Warner Inc., the world&#39;s biggest media company, may pay as much as $500 million to settle US government probes into whether it improperly booked advertising sales at its America
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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. - Paula Alvarez and Dale Thompson knew their friends and fellow employees at Wal-Mart might not be able to attend their wedding because of work. "We decided to bring the wedding to them," Alvarez said.  So Wednesday night, the Wal-Mart Stores Inc.