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...most frequent complaints made by Wal-Mart employees to TIME--low wages and morale-killing store managers--recently factored into a labor case the company lost in Oregon. A jury found Wal-Mart guilty of requiring associates to work unpaid overtime--even locking them inside stores. The company plans to appeal the verdict and says workers were locked into stores only late at night, for security reasons. Some 40 other lawsuits are pending, most of which similarly accuse Wal-Mart of requiring hourly employees to work "off the clock." Since September 2001, Wal-Mart also has been the defendant...
...wages are competitive with other retailers'. But the two most frequent complaints made by Wal-Mart employees to TIME - low wages and morale-killing store managers - recently factored into a labor case the company lost in Oregon. A jury found the company guilty of requiring associates to work unpaid overtime. The company plans to appeal; some 40 other wages-and-hours lawsuits are pending. Wal-Mart says it doesn't underpay employees, and that it's a good place to work. The company will enroll 5,500 people (most from store ranks) in its management-training program. "If the jobs...
...uproar of negative publicity forced the government to return some of the money, but it is still holding most of it. And there is still $4 million in unpaid fines, according to the tribe's attorney, Conly J. Schulte. "The tribe to this day can't use bank accounts for fear that the Federal Government is just going to seize any money," says Schulte. That thwarts the tribe's attempts to invest in any business, even one having nothing to do with gambling...
Some companies look to kill costs and ghost-work stress with a single stone: unpaid vacations. Since BellSouth offered unpaid leave to its 80,000 remaining employees in July, almost half have grabbed it--saving the Atlanta-based telephone company $14 million in payroll costs. Some firms, though, have made unpaid vacations mandatory. Last year Dell demanded that workers take one-week vacations without pay. "That had a lot of people grumbling," says an employee...
...last month, dozens of student employees have been working without pay. A flawed computer system has left some students who toil in Harvard’s libraries, museums and research labs unpaid for untold hours of work. Even worse, the problems with the new PeopleSoft payroll system have been left to fester as administrators and computer consultants try to figure out what went wrong...