Friday, October 13, 2006
Finally, Wal-Mart is the one getting drilled in the tookis......it's just too bad this ruling will be DOA if it ever makes it to the Republican Supreme Court.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s biggest retailer, must pay at least $78 million for violating Pennsylvania state labor laws by forcing employees to work through rest breaks and off the clock, a jury said Friday.I will now brace myself for the tsunami of conservative sympathy toward Wal-Mart that I see developing on the horizon...
Michael Donovan, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, had asked the jury for at least that amount for what he said were missed or shortened breaks, or time employees worked off the clock.
The class-action suit involves 187,000 current and former employees who worked at Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs in Pennsylvania from March 1998 through May of this year. The Common Pleas Court jury found Thursday that Wal-Mart violated state labor laws.
Lead plaintiff Dolores Hummel, who worked at a Sam’s Club in Reading from 1992-2002, charged in her suit that she had to work through breaks and after quitting time to meet work demands in the bakery. She said she worked eight to 12 unpaid hours a month, on average, to meet work demands.
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