Posted on 01/03/2007 6:20:39 PM PST by traumer
...deserve an additional $500 each in damages, or $62 million
OK - if WalMart ripped off employees, then they should pay them for that time. But to get a judgment, then ask for MORE money???
Ugh...
Walmart sure employs a lot of people in PA.
That notwithstanding: if you're employing THAT many people, you'd better be damn sure you're not trying to nickel and dime them, cutting corners on regulations, because it's going to come back and bite you with a vengeance. Very foolish of WalMart.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
"If I'm a claimant, I'm ENTITLED to everything the law says I'm entitled to, and if that's $500 every time I was shorted and I was shorted 24 times a year, then it's $12,000 "
:o)
A lot of these folks are undoubtedly even now trying to figure out how to get overtime on unemployment.
Gee, the author forget to mention how much money lawyer Michael Donovan was going to get.
They were forced to work off the clock??? If thats true, what the hell was Walmart thinking??
Maybe Wally's World should look at PA.....
in the review mirror.
"If thats true, what the hell was Walmart thinking??"
My sentiments exactly. How stupid can a company be to not make it plain to its management to adhere to the letter of the law and/or their agreements with their employees?
I mean, it's not like nobody knows that Wally World is the biggest target of unions, the media, and the left in general for cripes sake. They are under a microscope.
"Lead plaintiff Dolores Hummel said she put in about 10 hours each month off the clock to keep up with demands at a Sam's Club in Reading"
I don't know how these people can prove their case, and Wal Mart should pay if its a legit complaint, but if this lady thinks that 10 hours a MONTH of overtime without getting any extra money is bad, she should try working salary in the tech industry. She doesn't have a clue what overtime is. I work at least that 10 hours overtime a week and I never see a penny extra for it.
I work at Sam's Club part-time and attend college. I do not understand how the employees are able to work off the clock. The system will not allow it. My bosses are very strict about taking breaks. YOU HAVE TO TAKE THEM!!
Also the computer system locks you out when you clock out and you have to take a 30 minute lunch break. It will not let you clock back in until the 30 minutes has passed.
I work in the office and when it kicks you out- you are out!
"Also the computer system locks you out when you clock out and you have to take a 30 minute lunch break. It will not let you clock back in until the 30 minutes has passed."
That sounds like the company is trying to do the right thing. Which doesn't surprise me. If - and let me emphasize IF - these disgruntled employees' assertions are true, maybe a few local managers were thwarting the system to lower their expenses? They do have thousands of stores and there are a few weasels in every group.
That is quite possible. My managers are extremely frugal, but they also drill it into you during the hiring process that working off the clock is not acceptable. If anyone asks you to do this, you are to report them. .
I hope the managers at these stores were promptly fired for abusing their employees. Trust me, there are all kinds of ways for the authorities to know if they were skirting around the system.
Is it possible to clock out on lunch and then return to, let's say, the dock area to break down all your empty cartons and throw them in the dumpster so that when you get back from lunch it will look like to the boss that you're keeping up with your job?
"Also the computer system locks you out when you clock out and you have to take a 30 minute lunch break. It will not let you clock back in until the 30 minutes has passed."
My wife works at Walmart and was contacted by the law firm handling the case. She refused to be any part of it. She explained that it was probably a few bad managers and some current and former workers looking for some free money. These workers apparently worked through a 15 minute break or two. It was hteir responsiblity to take their breaks and they chose not to.
Wally ping.
First off, she didn't work "overtime," which is a legal definition for time worked by hourly workers over the standard 40 hour week. She worked OFF THE CLOCK, meaning that she was ordered to work during hours for which she was not being paid.
And don't forget that she's an hourly worker. There was an agreement entered into here, by both her and Walmart. The agreement was that she would be paid for every hour that she worked. Completely different than a salaried worker, which it seems both you and I are, and in the same industry.
It would be easy for her to prove that she worked additional hours. If she kept records of the time she started working versus when she timed in and out.
Again, you mentioned that she "doesn't have a clue what overtime is." Remember, by the employment agreement that she entered into with Walmart, they agreed to pay her hourly for her work, so she's not complaining about not getting overtime. She's complaining about working for Walmart at no pay. You can't say the same thing. As a salaried employee, you entered into an agreement that you would work until you finish, no matter what the hours, as have I. For instance, tonight I was responsible for moving 30 remote store VPN routers from one of our "hub" VPN routers to another. That little bonus project, plus my normal day to day work, allowed me to have a nice little extension to my normal 10 hour work day... 9:00am to 10:30pm. But that's part of MY job, and my employment agreement.
Mark
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