My hubby is going from 48 hours to 53 hours with no pay raise and must cut his staff by half. Wal-Mart is making all assitant managers work two late shifts too. The wont allow them to have two days off in a row either? Do you see protests and action towards Unions for Wal-Marts in the future?
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New unionization in USA is a thing of the past (and has been for a long time). Thank the rednecks who tend to shop at Wal Mart and the fascists who run the place. (They all voted unions into powerlessness) If you work at Wal-Mart, you don't understand the machinery that is crushing you. Also, think of their products and how their slave labor who make those products in asia are treated! Way worse than that. Do you remember how KMart managers were treated when Wal Mart was crushing Kmart? Inhuman, impossible jobs assigned to them. I would have quit and been treated better being homeless, even if I had kids, so do a job search for your hubby while he works. SERIOUSLY! You can facilitate his new career at some teenie tiny store and be much happier. Help him get a job, any job and be much happier. I had close friends get the life sucked out of them trying to stay on the sinking ship. WalMart is not sinking, but they will sink you!
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They say they are family oriented but when it comes to parents working there and need time off due to sick child or your own health they seem to down it and lay you off instead that is my own feelings..i enjoy shopping at walmart but they all need to have the same pricing..i find that one walmart is cheaper on prices then another..i guess the ones that complain are the ones that most likely have worked for them in the past or the present
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Tell them if they only accept it after Thanksgiving, it will be a one week notice.  I've never heard of a boss doing that.  When IS a good time?  I mean, you never like to lose people but if they resign, you can't put it off by telling them 'now is not a good time'.  Sheesh.
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Yes, that's why this year I'm on strike with the retailers.  I refuse to buy in to a commercial holiday.  All of our purchasing power should be put back in to our charities.  Katrina, Tsnami in India and other countries affected, Homeless in US, Make-a-Wish Foundation, and etc.  I could keep going...
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Very simple, I fired 6 employees who took off to boycott, they were not "illegal" but they were hispanic and in favor of breaking the law. Maybe the Government wont do anything, But each business owner sure can. I already replaced the hispanics who went to boycott with Americans who were interested in working, took abt 30 minutes. I wonder how they will feel tomorrow morning when they find they have no job here.
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Something is telling me that you are not giving us the entire story.  There HAS to be more to it than that!  If you were picking out rings on company time (not your break or your lunch) then, yes, WalMart has the right to fire you.
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No.  \nHow ridiculous to blame Walmart for other companies closing down.  Walmart gives the consumer what they want.  What should they do, raise prices to make it fair to everyone?  That is silly.\nThe real reason for a lot of the Walmart hate, is because they are not unionized.
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I think it is because customer service oriented jobs are being performed by the couch potato generation.  They think they are doing us a favor by being there.  Labor laws protect the employee but not the employer.  It is hard to weed out the individuals that are lazy.  It's not like the days when somebody could be fired on the spot.  Now there is so much red tape to terminate somebody.  I feel your pain though.  I have a hard time having to bag my own groceries after putting in a ten hour day!  I voice my opinion by making a copy of my receipt and mailing it to the business owner or manager with my complaint.  This way; they know exactly who the individual was, what time and date the incident occurred, and what my issues were.  Most of the time I get a letter explaining that the problem is being addressed.  Sometimes, the individual puts two and two together and is much more pleasant to me the next time I pay the place of business a visit.
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In most parts of the US - this would be an easy "Yes".  In Canada I am not so sure. I  did find the section of the law that seems to apply, but it has some provisions that are very different from how things are in the US. I am hoping it makes more sense to you.\n\n170. \n(2) Subject to subsection (3), an employer may, in respect of employees not subject to a collective agreement, establish, modify or cancel a work schedule under which the hours exceed the standard hours of work set out in paragraph 169(1)(a) if\n\n(a) the average hours of work for a period of two or more weeks does not exceed forty hours a week; and\n\n(b) the schedule, or its modification or cancellation, has been approved by at least seventy per cent of the affected employees.\n\nPosting of notice\n\n(3) Where a work schedule is to be established, modified or cancelled pursuant to subsection (2), the employer shall post a notice of the new schedule, or of its modification or cancellation, in readily accessible places where it is likely to be seen by the affected employees, for at least thirty days before the new schedule or its modification or cancellation takes effect.\n\nR.S., 1985, c. L-2, s. 170; 1993, c. 42, s. 15.
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Yeah! I was hired for eight dollars an hour. I quit the same day! My friend works in the bakery there and she loves it!I feel that I have too much education to only make eight dollars. However, I love shopping there! I just finished a 14 page research paper on Wal-Mart and its contribution to poverty among employees, and community. I hope its not a career your looking for, there was bad news! See for yourself, go to www.wakeupwalmart.com, or www.walmartsucks.com  Good Luck!
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MODIFIED  3/29/2006\nAssuming he's not covered by a contract.\nThere is ,in Ca., a limit to the length of the meal period  of "at least 30 minutes"(conditionally) but not over 1 hr.(currently under review). If he is not relieved of all duty it would be considered hours worked. It is considered a split shift which the employer is required to record his  "split shift intervals". (there are potentially penalties) IWC 9-2001 states in 4 (C) "When an employee works a split shift, one (1) hour's pay at the minimum wage shall be paid in addition to the minimum wage for that workday, except when the employee resides at the place of employment." \n\nThere are MANY opportunities in the truck driving field. If the company can't or won't work with him he could easily find another company. Just a thought.\n\nIn a letter dated 2002-12-11 the DLSE states that a meal period does not exceed 1 hour, so your husband is working a "split shift".\n\nBelow is the site for the Ca. IWC Order for THE\nTRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY. It gives just SOME of his rights as an employee in Ca.\nThe second link is the location of the letter.\nThe third link is thec DLSE Wage Claim Office locator.
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Destroy Wal-Mart.  Just kidding, but if the things weren't being sold already, they wouldn't be going up.\nA law?  I hope not.  To each their own.\nEtiquette?  Absolutely.  I agree.  Though in my family is was always the weekend AFTER the thanksgiving weekend.
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Manager is taking advantage.\nThis is a violation of labor laws.\nI don't remember what the exact numbers are, but its like 10 or 15 minutes every few hours, and you must get a meal break (like min of 30 minutes) if you work more than 6 or 8 hours.\nManager is shooting himself in the foot anyway. He just has a shop full of tired, unmotivated people, instead of the busy productive employees he thinks he is creating.
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I do i have monday off! Yipee! This week was short for me too.. they gave me monday and tuesay this week that why I am so glad this week went by so fast... My boss is getting ready to let me go home now even though i'm supposed to clock out at 5pm! (he will sign my time card for me..)
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I think everyone here is on the right track.\n\nYou need to contact the local Labor board and check on them. You may be able to sue him for the pay, the lack of a 2 week notice before termination, and lack of a in writing letter of termination outlying the reasons. May want to talk to a lawyer and see what the rights are in your county to see what you are able to do from here.\n\nGood luck!
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not calling in for a week is considered 'job abandonment', in which case, you have no case against them. I know this is a legit reason for termination, because it was used on me. However, I *had* called in. In fact, I had worked a full 10 hour shift during the time they claim they had not heard from me. However, it wasn't worth it to me to fight them in court. Maybe I should have. Turns out, they were fighting like 10 lawsuits at one time.
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Wal-Mart needs to take its own share of responsibility for the workforce it hires and to the communities around where it builds.  To date, it does neither.\n\nSure, Wal-Mart supplies cheap goods to the middle class.  But, at what a cost?  They do hire lots of people, but they don't treat those people properly.  Much of Wal-Mart's workforce can't even afford the health insurance they offer on what they get paid.  Even Wal-Mart's CEO has stated that the 'free' healthcare systems may offer better coverage than Wal-Mart's plans.  Only Wal-Mart can get away with shoving off their employee's health concerns to the state and local free healthcare system.\n\nWhat people need to realize is the difference between what Wal-Mart sells and how they operate their business.  While Wal-Mart does offer good deals on items, the way they operate their business is separate from the goods they sell.  So, as a discriminating consumer, you have to diffentiate between Wal-Mart the corporation (with shady business tactics) and Wal-Mart the store (out to sell discount items)... it's basically two different things (although still connected).  While I agree we need discount stores, we don't need corporations willing to do anything to make a buck even at the expense of other businesses, workers and the local economy.\n\nCorporate Wal-Mart decides where stores are to be built and how to manage all of the details around procurement of the land, building, construction details and stocking the stores (including tax abatement and various other incentives to get them to build there).  After the store is built, however, then it's operated by the store manager who tries to do the right thing (obviously directed by regional directors and corporate HQ).  Likely most, if not all, of the not-so-savory ways of doing business are handed down by corporate WM and not by the stores or the store managers.