Wal-Mart Tries To Sugar-Coat Harsher Employee Policies With Holiday Discounts

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/4796

Wal-Mart Tries To Sugar-Coat Harsher Employee Policies With Holiday Discounts

With Wal-Mart employees feeling more and more powerless, the company has adopted a new program to try and win them back. Jesse Russell has more:

In recent months the world’s largest company has embarked on a new profit saving mission - a mission that includes using more part time workers, capping wages, and stiffer penalties for unpaid days off. The plan has created outrage amongst some employees and demonstrations have even broken out at some Wal-Mart stores around the country. According to the New York Times the company has adopted a new program intended to show the employees that the corporation still cares. Managers of the Wal-Mart stores will meet with 10 workers each week to hear their concerns. In addition, store managers can extend the 10 percent employee discount to an additional 10 percent on a single item in the store during the holiday period. The program also includes a special polo shirt for employees who have been with the company for more than 20 years. Wal-Mart does have other methods for employees to reach out to management - including an anonymous employee complaint line and an internal website where workers can ask questions of executives in the company including CEO Lee Scott.

[marmar]

1. I hate Apall-Mart....

I've never spent a dime in that big flea market.

[peacefreak]

2. E. Scrooge appointed to head of Human Resouces, I see.

nt

[liberal N proud]

3. NOTHING NEW - Wal-Mart has given it's employees an extra 10% every holiday

For a total of 20% discount each and every year at this time.
This is nothing new and has been going on since the days that Sam Walton founded the company.

Those wages at Wal-Mart although not stellar are not the low wages everyone keep slamming them for.

[blondeatlast]

4. The standard employee discount in retail has ALWAYS been 20% year round with an

extra 10-15% for the holidays.

Wal-Mart screws its employees, period.

[itsrobert]

5. Target is 10 percent

thanks

[liberal N proud]

6. In the 30 plus years Wal-Mart has always given 10% + another 10 at Christmas

All I get at the company I work for is a lousy canned turkey dinner with powdered mashed potatoes.

[Generic Brad]

8. That's better than I get

I can always count on nothing with clock-like regularity. Once an employer gave me a turkey for Christmas, a few times bosses bought lunch, but in 25+ years of working that is about all I have ever received at year end.

Whenever I hear people talk about getting a Christmas bonus I have always wondered what the hell they were referring to.

[Pugee]

7. Oh, but if you've been there 20 years, you get a polo shirt!

:sarcasm:

[SmellsLikeDeanSpirit]

9. Worked there and everything you here is true.

I counted down the days until I could quit.