Wal-Mart Accused of Denying Lunch Breaks

Yahoo ^ | 09-19-2005 | AP

[sinkspur]

Griping about lunch breaks is a sign of desperation.

Lots of people work through lunch, and eat on the fly.

I smell the AFL-CIO in this.

[RFT1]

Its intresting, Wal Mart has done EVERYTHING that Wall Street has asked it to do in terms of emplyee costs, taking extreme measures, and you know what, Wal Marts stock is still in the toilet, whatever they are doing, it is not working, and the low employee morale I see is very clerly reflected in the Wal Marts I go to, and that is reflected in the poor conditions I see various displays and upkeep in.

[since1868]

They hired a new guy from Target,he is going to change the stores. Make them more appitizing.

[American Vet Repairman]

What's a lunch break?

[VeniVidiVici]

Wal-Mart impregnated my sister.

I'll never shop there again.

[RFT1]

Unless employee morale imporves, the stores will not imporve. The same exact thing happened to K Mart in the 80s and 90s, and its reputation for poor service damaged its bottom line. People are willing to spend 10%-15% extra on items, in some cases even more than that to avoid bad customer service, a dirty atmosphere and long waits at the register.

[RFT1]

A lunch break is a 30 minuite period of time an employer is requried to give their employees. I know some disagree with such notions, but the law is the law.

[meyer]

Lunch is for wimps GG

I haven't had a lunch break at work in 15 years.

[meyer]

"Lawyers representing about 116,000 former and current Wal-Mart Stores Inc. employees in California..."

I wonder how they got them all into the office...

[rawhide]

They should try being a public school teacher. I work through the day w/o any breaks. I also work weekends w/o additional pay. So the Wally World folks have it pretty good in my opinion.

I do not believe you really meant what you posted. I cannot believe someone, who has very good benefits and very good pay compared to the average employee at WalMart, would claim the WalMart employees have it pretty good. You are the one who has it pretty good, on the taxpayers dime, too! Come on now, get real.

[lowbridge]

Lets see.

66 million dollars divided by 166 thousand employees equals: 397.59 per employee

Of course I'm forgetting the Attorney's fees which should come to one third of the settlement (22 million)

So, revised:

22 million for the lawyers and 265.06 for each individual employee.

[lowbridge]

Whoops, that was 116 thousand, not 166 employees:

So, 22 million for the lawyers and 379.31 for each employee.

[ladyinred]

Wally world is out there in the gulf states helping the victims with everything they could possibly want. This is anti corp. liberal crap as ususal.

[Porterville]

Do you teach? Have you tried? Have you tried getting your licsense? Do you work with people? Then you do not know. Besides, I make my world, I, "Do not have it pretty good" as you put it. Everything I have, every dime I invest, every minute, every degree and diploma and every step I make are sacrifice decided upon by me. Cry me a river if you do not understand. My strength does not lie in any one area or any one dimension of minor issues. If I had a job elsewhere I would be the best and would not complain. Because I would be doing what I wanted, always.

[The Red Zone]

It SOUNDS like it is squarely based upon the law. If so, then it doesn't matter whether it's Wal Mart or Joe's Submarine Sandwich Shop.

[Captain Peter Blood]

I work at Wal-Mart and recently they fired a guy at my store that would clock back in from lunch then would spend an additional 2 hours or so in the break room not working. He got away with this for a short time but was caught.
We have to take a mandatory lunch break according to the 6 hour rule mentioned in the story. I really don;t know where this stuff comes from.

[rawhide]

There is no way you can tell me that your job, with all the benefits you have and the pay you receive, is not as good a job as a person who works at WalMart. No way!
You need to come off your NEA brainwashing mentality that teachers have it so bad our country in terms of pay, benefits, and the amount of work they are required to put into their job. Cry me a river!
I for one am getting sick and tired of so many teachers who whine, cry and bellyache, because they want more and more money. They cry that they have to work so many long hours, without little rest and relaxation. Then their weekends are filled with many hours of work. These are the teachers who complain that the reason for the poor results coming out of the public schools, is because the government is not throwing enough money their way.
You, my friend, need to get out into the real world, and work for a private sector job, like a job at WalMart that you seem to admire, and then maybe you will understand who really has it better. And then maybe you will appreciate the benefits you have, the vacation given you throughout the year, and in the summer months, and finally the pay you get for the amount of work you are required to do.
I say it again you are the one who has it better than the WalMart employee!
PS: I still cannot believe you are comparing your job to the average worker at WalMart, looking at the pay, benefits, and work, and coming up with the conclusion they have it better than you. And you call yourself a teacher?

[em2vn]

Task assignment. You have got to be kidding. Give a person nine hours work and tell them it must be done in six.
You say they must give up their lunch or stay over. Do they get paid for either or do we just let the communist chinese's best friend work their employees without pay.

[MarkL]

Hey, my hubby is on Customer Calls of his computer company. He hasn't had a lunch in 7 years.

I pack him PB&J that he eats between calls.

These workers are whiners.

I know how that works... I'm a field service engineer for a computer company, and when I eat lunch, it's usually while I'm driving to a client site. Most days, I just don't have time for lunch.

Mark

[em2vn]

If you could read I think you would see that the comment was about the number of hours worked, not wages, or benefits.
Teachers do put in very long hours on many days. Much of their work is done at home preparing for the next day's lessons and grading papers.
It seems to be an article of faith on FR that teachers are all lazy bums. Such a belief is as valid as saying that all who post on FR know what they are talking about.