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(Reuters) -Walmart said on Tuesday it will expand online primary care benefits as part of its employee health insurance plan to its workers in 28 U.S. states.
In 2005, labor unions created new organizations and websites to criticize the company, including Wake Up Walmart ( United Food and Commercial Workers) and Walmart Watch ( Service Employees International Union ). By the end of 2005, Walmart had launched Working Families for Walmart to counter those groups. Efforts to counter criticism include a public relations campaign in this same year, [9 ...
So beginning in 2012, Walmart will slash its contribution to workers' health-care expense accounts by half. Henceforth, Walmart will subsidize employee health-care costs by just $250 (and remember ...
Walmart, the nation's largest private employer, is expanding nationwide its health care coverage next month for employees who want to enlist the services of a doula, a person trained to assist ...
In November 2011, Warehouse Workers helped Wal-Mart warehouse employees file their fourth class-action lawsuit against the warehouse companies. Without Wal-Mart being a direct defendant, the argument was made that Wal-Mart has created this culture amongst the companies it works with. The first lawsuit filed was in 2009.
Working Families for Walmart. Working Families for Walmart is an advocacy group formed by Walmart and the Edelman public relations firm on December 20, 2005. [1] [2] It has been used to praise Walmart in a show of opposition to union-funded groups such as Wake Up Wal-Mart and Wal-Mart Watch. [3] The group is financially supported by Walmart and ...
Walmart's new bonus plan for eligible part-time and full-time U.S. store workers — including those in its pharmacy and Vision Centers — is based on their store's performance, with the maximum ...
The documentary argues that Walmart underpays its workers, paying them an average of $17,000 per year (in 2005 dollars). [7] According to the interviews, these wages are too low for employees to afford Walmart's health insurance, so management counsels workers to apply for government programs such as Medicaid instead. [3] Greenwald also claims that Walmart hires undocumented workers for their ...