Wal Mart increases starting wage

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So they said they were closing the stores -- I got that already. My requesting a source for no-notice was obviously about the employees not getting "a single days' notice" ... something entirely unaddressed in your link. Did anyone show up today for work only to be told they were jobless and to go home? The store was closed, but as a retail manager I know from experience that you just don't call it "closed" and everything's hunky-dory. There's wind-down, and that's usually done with personnel on hand.

FM was saying that people were let go with zero notice. I want to see that claim supported. Got anything?

Uh, right.

Workers and customers learned about the store closures on the same day Walmart drew praise from the White House for raising pay

That was today.  Hence, they did not know until today.

That is not the same thing as saying "you're unemployed" today, which is what was claimed.

Are you being deliberately obtuse?

Plus...

The federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires big employers to give workers 60 days notice before closing a plant or issuing mass layoffs.
Sam's Club posted one such alert, referred to as a WARN notice, to the Indiana state government's website. That notice says three locations in the state were slated to be closed on January 26. The move will impact 419 employees.
Several other states where CNNMoney confirmed stores will be closing did not have such notices posted as of Thursday afternoon.
Hitt, the Walmart spokesperson, told CNNMoney that he was unfamiliar with exactly where Walmart issued WARN notices. But he said the company would have issued them "where appropriate."

They ignored that law it seems.

That depends on when those locations are closing, obviously. Announcing layoffs and actually laying folks off is a process. FM asserted that employees were let go "without a single days' notice."

Nothing you've posted in reply has supported that.