Wal-Mart Fires Worker Over Eavesdropping
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NEW YORK -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday that it has fired a Wal-Mart systems technician for recording phone conversations between the company's PR office and a newspaper reporter and for intercepting text messages without authorization.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. confirmed Wednesday that it dumped several executives but would not detail why they were fired. The terminations occurred over the past several days, spokeswoman Mona Williams said.
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A pharmacist who claimed she was fired by Wal-Mart after asking to be paid the same as her male colleagues has won a nearly $2 million award against the retail giant.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. must pay $2 million in damages to a former pharmacist who said she was fired from its Pittsfield store after complaining that she was being paid less than her male counterparts.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  fired three executives and four managers from its Bentonville, Arkansas headquarters for violating company rules, the company said on Wednesday.
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GERMANTOWN, Md. A Maryland-based private lab that analyzes criminal-case DNA evidence has fired an analyst for allegedly falsifying test data.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , the world's largest retailer, faces a federal probe after the company said a technician intercepted text messages and improperly recorded phone calls with a New York Times reporter.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, and its chief executive, Lee Scott, went on the offensive Thursday against critics of its employment policies and the impact its stores have on communities where they are located.
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Police are investigating two small  fires at a southern California branch of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.  that led to 500 people being evacuated from the smoke-filled  store on Wednesday.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is warning Web sites that leak its Black Friday ads before Nov. 19 that they could face legal action.
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is going on  the offensive against detractors in a campaign to deliver "the  unfiltered truth" about the world's largest retailer, Chief  Executive Officer Lee Scott said in an interview published on  Thursday.
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RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.
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Tweeter is caught in the Wal-Mart pickle. Known for top-of-the-line electronics and custom installations, the Canton retailer has been squeezed ever since Wal-Mart began selling televisions en masse.
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NEW YORK -- The relationship between Wal-Mart's chief executive and entrepreneur Irwin Jacobs, a vendor to the world's largest retailer, is taking some heat.
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A U.S. retailer has been deluged with angry messages since an employee sent an e-mail to an American soldier in Iraq saying "if you were sensible, you and your troops would pull out of Iraq."
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A longtime local government worker is fired after she cooperates with an investigation of sexual harassment allegations against a high-ranking official. The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether federal civil rights law protects employees from such retaliation.
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Large grocery and discount stores across the country have been targeted by a caller who threatens to blow up shoppers and workers with a bomb if employees fail to wire money to an account overseas, authorities said.