Wal-Mart to Increase Wages for Most U.S. Store Workers

wsj ^ | 1-20-2016 | SARAH NASSAUER

[Citizen Zed]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will give nearly all of its hourly store employees a pay raise next month and not just minimum wage earners, an attempt by the country's largest private employer to combat a tighter labor market and chronic turnover.

[Citizen Zed]

Most get a raise. The rest get canned.

[txrefugee]

Full timers become part timers, so it’s a wash.

[ColdOne]

Many get canned the rest get part time work.

[MeganC]

Raises right as Wal Mart stock is tanking? I think this will be retracted before the end of the month.

[hadaclueonce]

296 Wal Mart stores will be closed.

That means they will have lay off 14 cashiers.

[biff]

“tighter labor market”???? What planet do they live on?

[donna]

Maybe, make sure they speak English and wash their hands.

[nascarnation]

There are help wanted signs all over the midwest
they’re all near min wage 29er type, but lots of them

[Jim W N]

Unconstitutional federal minimum wage. Tyranny with the added extra of being a business and job killer.

[freedumb2003]

>>That means they will have lay off 14 cashiers.<<

But the knots of associates in the cereal aisle laughing and joking and supervising one person swapping Cream of Wheat boxes will be OK.

[stocksthatgoup]

Tighter labor market? LMAO

[Jane Long]

Look for more store closings, as a result.

[meatloaf]

I have no idea what the percentage is but the drug test blows many of the applicants away.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Walmart doesn’t have a magic money machine. These raises are paid for by layoffs.

[faithhopecharity]

just a bet....
since WM probably can’t afford higher total wage expenses...

1. less workers and/or
2. less worker-hours
3. cutting any remaining full-timers to Part-time (shedding the expensive ObamaCare costs)
4. more automation all around (including checkout machines)
5. closing some more marginal stores (and any in cities that impose special higher-wage rules)

gotta cut costs to compensate, especially since left-wingers are conducting what looks like an illegal boycott of WalMart stores

[napscoordinator]

I have Walmart stock and wished that was the only stock tanking. They all are right now. This is wonderful by the way. We need a very bad economy going into November.

[Jane Long]

Tighter labor market because over half won’t get off of their, er, hammocks....to content to collect those hand out, er, hand up checks, every month.

See, that’s why the Dems/GOPee need all of those illegals to come in and stay....so they can do the jobs these hammock sitters won’t do :(

They don’t want to get rid of the hammock sitters, because that makes up the Dim base.

Palin called these folks out, at the Trump rally, today.

[Blue Jays]

I got a laugh out of that absurd "tightening job market" line as well.
The sign of a healthy economy is when a worker can practically quit a job on a Friday afternoon and start his/her new role on a Monday morning.

[oh8eleven]

That means they will have lay off 14 cashiers.
14? When did they hire the extra 10?

[nascarnation]

That’s one of the big problems for anybody hiring truck drivers. My SILs Dad runs a dump truck operation and pays good money but the young guys can’t initially pass or continue to pass the CDL drug test reqs.