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In reply to the discussion: Walmart Is Falling Apart Before Our Eyes [View all]theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I didn't until today. It seems that until 2008 Wally World was paying its Mexican workers in company scrip and stopped only when they were forced to do so by the courts.
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/09/mexico-supreme-court-orders-wal-mart-to.php
JURIST
Friday, September 05, 2008
Mexico Supreme Court orders Wal-Mart to stop paying workers in store vouchers
Joe Shaulis
The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice on Thursday ruled that Wal-Mart de Mexico may not pay employees in part with vouchers redeemable only at its stores. The court nullified the employment contract of a worker who challenged the voucher payments, finding that they violated Article 123 of the Mexican Constitution, which guarantees the right to "dignified and socially useful work." The court likened the arrangement, which Wal-Mart called the Plan of Social Welfare, to a practice that prevailed during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, who ruled Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Until the practice was abolished by the current constitution in 1917, workers could be forced to buy exorbitantly priced goods at company stores....