n.p. Wal-Mart takes hits on worker treatment 22 Jun,2004. http://www.usatoday.com. Web. 25 Jan, 2011.
The problem of treating employees badly is all over the world. Even Wal-mart, the world’s largest employer is facing the heavy losses in both reputation and money because of the scandal of treating employees unfairly.
The workers in Wal-mart have to accept a lot of inequality in many aspects. First of all, they were paid in relative low wages. The average salary for a family in Wal-mart is 13,861dollars per year while the federal’s lowest wage for a family is 14,630 dollars per year. Thus the quality of Wal-mart’s employees’ life is inferior to others’. Secondly, staff in Wal-mart is always enforced work overtime, they are even not allowed to take a rest and have lunch time. There are also several ethical problem being accused since female workers feel discriminatory when they are trying to be hired and treated in work areas. In addition, the health insurance covers in Wal-mart is much less than the other enterprises. It’s obvious to see that employees in Wal-mart are suffering the tortures both mentally and physically. Although they work very hard, they didn’t receive equivalent reward and guaranteed future.
Certainly, Wal-mart is also facing a lot of trouble. According to the report, “Roughly 40 lawsuits have been filed by employees who say they were foced to work overtime for no pay. The company is facing a sexual discrimination lawsuit in California that could become the largest such case in history.” Lawsuits from several states all over the USA cost the company millions of dollars, and the society criticized the company extremely severe. In order to smooth over the fault, Wal-mart have to expanded into the 680 billion dollars retail grocery business and hiring more than 1 million employees in the nest five years.
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