Wal Mart increases starting wage

[Thumpalumpacus]

11,025 Employees lost their Jobs - Most of these employees didn't even get a single day's Notice!

[Emphasis added -- Thump]

Source?

[Minimalist]

Here you go, Thump.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/11/news/com...index.html

Sam's Club is shutting down 63 stores, and some employees and customers say it did so without warning.

Workers and customers learned about the store closures on the same day Walmart drew praise from the White House for raising pay and giving out worker bonuses because of the new lower corporate tax rate.

Early in the day, news broke about the sudden shutdown of an unspecified number of Sam's Club locations. Sam's Club, using its official Twitter account, at first said that 53 locations were being shut, and 10 would be converted into fulfillment centers.

I'm sure the WLB was tipped off by his fellow corporate criminal pals.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Here you go, Thump.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/11/news/com...index.html

Sam's Club is shutting down 63 stores, and some employees and customers say it did so without warning.

Workers and customers learned about the store closures on the same day Walmart drew praise from the White House for raising pay and giving out worker bonuses because of the new lower corporate tax rate.

Early in the day, news broke about the sudden shutdown of an unspecified number of Sam's Club locations. Sam's Club, using its official Twitter account, at first said that 53 locations were being shut, and 10 would be converted into fulfillment centers.

I'm sure the WLB was tipped off by his fellow corporate criminal pals.

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?

[chimp3]

I am sure that $11 hr will entice more Norwegians to move to the U.S. !

[Minimalist]

Here you go, Thump.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/11/news/com...index.html





I'm sure the WLB was tipped off by his fellow corporate criminal pals.

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.

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.

[Thumpalumpacus]

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.

[Amarok]

This is a lame PR stunt . And any attempt to link this to benefits of the tax changes is nonsense . Soon as the attention about this dies down the workers get fucked again. Never trust corporations or their puppets .

https://www.salon.com/2017/12/21/its-ok-...us-boasts/

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The raises have fuck all to do with Trumps horrific tax bungle .Do also need to mention the weekly earnings in the US went 4 percent under Obama .So does he get all the credit for that?

http://time.com/money/5098953/walmart-mi...-tax-cuts/

http://fortune.com/2018/01/11/walmart-mi...s-bonuses/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...es/549116/

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That depends on where you live I've lived on less.

Unless you lived in a third world country then no you didn't and no it's not .

 Regardless, it's $1,500 closer, right?

Nope it's like needing a roof and having some person nail to boards together and calling enough

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Signs up around here (St. Louis) are saying "$11/hour" or "Part time $10". I don't watch the news, so is this a new national minimum wage?

[Brian37]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/11/walmart-...-bill.html

Walmart's workers will soon reap the benefits of the recent tax law changes, as the world's largest private employer raises its starting wage, creates new benefits and distributes bonuses to eligible workers.

The big-box retailer announced Thursday it will increase its starting wage rate for hourly employees in the U.S. to $11, and expand maternity and parental leave benefits. Currently, Walmart's starting wage is $9 until workers complete a training program. Then, they receive $10.

Walmart will also pay a one-time cash bonus to eligible employees of as much as $1,000. The payouts, which should total roughly $400 million, will result in a one-time charge that the company will take in its fiscal fourth quarter.

You are stupid if you think even two parents working on $11 an hour is survivable in any big city. EVEN at that pay say in SF or NYC it would still NOT meat the cost of living.

AND THE PART you forgot to mention is that they ALSO have closed or are closing 65 Sam's Club stores.

[John V]

If a Democratic government increased the minimum wage to $11, I'm pretty sure most of you would hail that as a great achievement.

But, when a private company does it as a response to a Republican tax cut, it's worthless.