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25 Apr 2012, 2:27 am by SHG
There were $24 million in bribes paid to locate stores in Mexico, where Wal-Mart is hated for undermining local businesses, the claim being that for every job Wal-Mart created, four were lost in business that died in its shadow.When the company became aware of the bribery, and its scope, it quelched the investigation. [read post]
24 Oct 2011, 2:04 pm by guest-writer
Members of the Walton family are considered royalty in their native Arkansas, where Walton founded the first Wal-Mart store decades ago. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 9:22 am
Recall the long legal saga about Wal-Mart's decision to close its store in Jonquiere, Quebec after the store became unionized. [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 1:24 pm
The Wall Street Journal reports: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is mobilizing its store managers and department supervisors around the country to warn that if Democrats win power in November, they'll likely change federal law to make it easier for workers to... [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 12:36 pm
In a recent Anaheim, California employment lawyers blog, our attorneys discussed the ten year old discrimination lawsuit, filed in 2001 by Wal-Mart employee Betty Dukes and five other current and former employees of Wal-Mart, who claimed discrimination based on gender, under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 9:19 am by Bryan Fears
A Texas woman has filed a personal injury lawsuit against Wal-Mart alleging she was injured when a store employee rammed a rack of carts into her. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 5:04 am by Francesca Robertson
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, is currently facing a vast gender-discrimination lawsuit. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 7:43 pm
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the case in which plaintiffs filed a class action alleging that Wal-Mart discriminates against women in violation of Title VII.As we noted in prior posts, one of the (many) legal questions at issue in Dukes is the propriety of a classwide determination of punitive damages for Title VII claims. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 10:55 am
Plaintiff's attorney Brad Seligman says that discrimination was "a system-wide process" at Wal-Mart's 3,400 stores and that their sexual discrimination expert witness found that "in every one of 41 regions, women got paid less than men" by an average of a couple of thousand dollars a year. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 5:08 am by Jon Gelman
Came across this post today: "How McDonald's and Wal-Mart Became Welfare Queens." [read post]
20 Jun 2011, 8:27 am by Matt Bodie
Bielby claimed to present a social framework, but he testified about social facts  specific to Wal-Mart”);  id., at 1747–1748 (“Dr. [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 1:50 pm
"Maryland will drop Wal-Mart law fight; Move ends battle over health care": The Baltimore Sun today contains an article that begins, "Maryland won't challenge a federal court decision striking down the state's 'Fair Share' health care act, ending a two-year effort to force Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to pay more for employee health care, Attorney General Douglas F. [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 8:38 am
The teens went to the Wal-Mart after a massive house party in the area was broken up, according to the newspaper. [read post]
17 Oct 2006, 11:03 am
A sample of Ballard's Farm Egg Salad sold in a Wake County, North Carolina, Wal-Mart store has tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, a potentially-fatal foodborne pathogen. [read post]
29 Nov 2009, 9:21 pm
In a closely watched 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Wal-Mart "was within its rights when it shut down a store in Jonquiere, Que., that had been unionized seven months earlier. [read post]
14 Aug 2008, 12:42 pm
Kris Maher and Ann Zimmerman report in today's Wall Street Journal that [p]rominent labor groups are seeking an investigation into whether Wal-Mart Stores Inc. violated federal election laws by telling employees that electing Democrats would lead to passage of legislation... [read post]