Woman sues Wal-Mart over wages

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Woman sues Wal-Mart over wages
By Steven P. Wagner
The Forum - 11/17/2006

A lawsuit filed in Fargo’s federal court seeks class action status for claims that Wal-Mart stores engaged in widespread wage abuse against hourly employees.

Lori Kraemer, a 33-year-old former worker at Sam’s Club in Grand Forks, N.D., claims she and others were forced to work off the clock and through breaks to meet work requirements.

Wal-Mart owns and operates 10 stores, including Sam’s Club stores, in North Dakota.

“By systematically under-staffing its stores and setting impossible profit standards for each department … Wal-Mart has deliberately attempted” to skirt state wage compensation laws, states the 20-page lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court.

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Kraemer’s complaint asks that the lawsuit be given class action status and force

Wal-Mart to pay lost wages, interest, attorney’s fees and other expenses.

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[Kiouni]

1. actually it's pretty straight forward management

its sad I know but they replace "Protestant work ethic" with "wall-mart family." This type of worker exploitation is obviously by no means new and is a commonly adopted technique to get people to work harder and longer. We as the worker bees have to realize that we work for more then just money and a good manager or company exploits that weakness to increase profits. If you go against it your what Jack Welch calls a TURKEY!

I can't condemn wal-marts managment style because its pretty common but i don't agree with alot of other issues so I support with my wallet and shop elsewhere.