Posted on 11/30/2019 7:50:04 AM PST by bgill
Walmart shoppers are threatening to boycott the store after discovering employees aren't paid extra to work on Thanksgiving.
Instead, Walmart offers them 10% and 15% discounts to shop in its store. The 15% discount is only available Dec. 5 and Dec. 6.
Walmart said the policy has been in place for three years.
"We simplified our paid time-off policies in 2016 to combine vacation, holiday, sick and personal time into one bucket," Walmart said in a statement. "As part of that change, we no longer offer holiday pay. We did this to give our associates greater flexibility and more choice to use their time off when and how they want to. Also as part of that change, associates can now roll over and cash out unused time off at the end of the fiscal year."
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Lefties are ALWAYS threatening to boycott Walmart.
Walmart’s doing just fine, thank you.
I also worked for a large department. I worked on a shift that got Christmas almost every year. When I changed shifts, the new shift got into a similar rotation. But there were always overtime or trade opportunities if you were not scheduled.
The closest Walmart has a bunch of senior citizens working at it. I shoot the breeze with a few of them all the time. They, like our daughter seem to be perfectly happy with their jobs.
Too late to boycott - Thanksgiving was 2 days ago.
Aren’t most Walmart employees part-time? Do Walmart PT people actually get paid time off, etc? I didn’t know any PT employees got that...
Montgomery Bus Boycott. Of course, to be fair, the lawyers called it a Protest.
“No holiday pay? Hey, you get a break at the company store.”
For what it’s worth, they do get a Thanksgiving Dinner. Told to me by my brother-in-law.
Employee policy can be learned before one takes the job. Don’t like the policy, don’t take the job or negotiate it before starting.
So it’s just like working in IT, then?
I started out working at Burger King, McDonalds and Wendys.
I received more break time working for those fast food places than I do now as an IT worker. What lunch? What break?
I took the day off yesterday and users were calling my cell phone!
My first job as a newly minted mechanical engineer was starting up power plants. Nobody told me the plants were most often shut down at Christmas and Independence Day for scheduled maintenance. For five years, I never got either holiday of...and no bonus or time-and-a-half because I was salaried. All the union guys on the same job were getting double time and loving it.
Where I worked, for holiday work, the average Blue Collar worker got his regular pay plus time and a half.
The supervisors got their regular salary, nothing more.
“Montgomery Bus Boycott. Of course, to be fair, the lawyers called it a Protest.”
That’s not a boycott of a business, but thanks.
And why would you think that? In many small towns, LEOs get paid crap wages. Our old county paid firefighters $9.95/hr, deputies $11.25/hr, and paramedics $13.15/hr. Gee getting shot at for $11.25 an hour over working at Walmart for even $10.50/hr? Some people on here never cease to amaze me.
Yeah.......prohibition.
rwood
Yes, it was. Greyhound. Caused a lot of damage to their bottom line.
Went by my local Walmart yesterday. ONly a tiny but more busy than normal. These walmart employees should be happy they have a job and haven’t been replaced by a robot yet.
And, I bet her husband did a lot more than Walmart workers and/or invested a lot more in his job-related education than Walmart workers.
Oh brother...
Well...where I live LEOs get paid very well and they deserve every nickle. But I never heard of someone not getting OT for Thanksgiving. We had a union employees and there was no straight time on holidays. In many jobs it’s automatic doubletime.
I don’t know about towns where people get paid crap
I get it....the only point of view that is valid is the one you have. Only backwards people do things differently than you.
Walmarts around here are not open all day long on Thanksgiving. They open in the late afternoon, 5 or 6 pm. You’d be hard pressed to get the turkey home and have it cooked by midnight.
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