Look-Based Hiring System

Furthermore, “hiring attractive people is not necessarily illegal, but discriminating on the basis of age, sex or ethnicity is”. By hiring for looks, many businesses use attractive employees to portray a certain image not meaning to discriminate specifically. Hiring in search of great appearance of someone, gives a fresher and more stunning representation to a retail store. A retailer desires to hire people whom he knows will appear looking great and well groomed to work every day. Moreover, striking employees do benefit the reputation of the store and how people may remember it. The attractiveness of employees nowadays does truly attract customers to shop at certain stores more than others, which ultimately benefits specific stores as a whole. The physical appearances of employees are one of the many ways that businesses are able to advertise themselves to buyers

Walmart is nearly everywhere. It is reported that there over 5,000 stores nationwide (Walmart Corporate). And that means that there are a lot of employees — nearly 1.4 million of them to be exact (Walmart Corporate). They are often seen as being greedy in order to receive a big profit over their competitors. Unfortunately for employees, that could mean problems: Walmart is often under ridicule for their low salaries, less than great benefits, and their lack of career training, and bad treatment. These issues may leave Walmart’s employees struggling with lack of money and lack of training — this may be bad news for America’s tax payers, too.

In the society we all live in today, where outside beauty is emphasized more than inner beauty, businesses have realized how to utilize that view to their own benefit They have looked at trends and realized that it is profitable to hire those with outer beauty. However, since certain businesses are only hiring certain ethnicities in order to project that image, it has been questioned whether these businesses are discriminating. In the article, Going for the Look, but Risking Discrimination, it says that " hiring attractive people is not necessarily illegal, but discriminating on the basis of age, sex, and ethnicity is." The companies cannot help it that only certain types of people fit their marketing image and their hiring strategies are

Steven Greenhouse, writer for New York Times, states in his article “Going for the Look,but Risking Discrimination”, that companies are hiring people based only on how attractive they look and are risking discrimination because of it. Greenhouse then supports his claim by giving examples, like L’Oreal, Gap, Abercrombie & Fitch, and W Hotel. He next proceeds to show that hiring based off looks can result in lawsuits and discrimination. Finally, he informs that stores have hired good looking people who are incompetent rather than hiring someone who is not that good looking but is experienced. Greenhouse’s purpose is to show that although it is not illegal to only hire attractive people, it might not be morally correct to just hire on looks.

There was definitely a pattern if not several different patterns of discrimination committed by Wal-Mart managers and executives. The Supreme Court made the wrong ruling by siding with the corporation instead of the people. Four of the five justices that ruled in favor of Wal-Mart were white men that grew up in privilege and Clarence Thomas, the fifth justice who rarely spoke in session; just went along with whatever Judge Scalia said. Thomas has decided in favor of Scalia’s decisions 78percent of the time since taking the bench in 1991 (De Vogue, 2016). The ruling in favor of Wal-Mart over Betty Dukes and the thousands of other women that complained of discrimination simply because there was not one pattern of discrimination throughout all the stores is shameful. There does not need to be one consistent discriminatory practice to prove discrimination. That’s like saying there can only be one shade of blue to prove something is blue.

while having attractive employees can help make the store and its image more appealing, the discriminative undertones may make the whole thing worthless. the whole idea of this policy is to hire attractive people over those considered unattractive. Sometimes, the attractiveness of potential employees is based on a specific image that the company they work for want to project, and that image usually has a specific

Walmart hand book states that they should “provide an environment free of discrimination to our associates, customers, members and suppliers.” It goes on to say that they “prohibits discrimination in employment, employment-related decisions or in business dealings on the basis of an individual’s race, color, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, religion, disability’.

The jobs Walmart creates are no doubt great for the locals, if jobs in the area are poor or rare. The National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that “homes in the half mile radius from a Walmart rose in value over 3%” (Riper). The NBER also concluded that an “additional Walmart per 100,000 residents increased the average obesity rate by 2.3%” (Riper). The current controversy is that Walmart doesn’t treat, or pay its employees enough, which could be said about a lot of businesses all over this country. I would like to touch on the fact that as it may be the case that they do not pay for what is given by their employees, it is still a job that offers benefits.

The class suit represents over 1.6 million women who currently work or that have been employed by Wal-Mart. It is range between 1998 to 2001 of how women felt isolated and violated because of their gender. It is an accurate action for the lawsuit because Wal-Mart had breached the Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This law prohibits discrimination in employment; religion, gender, race, or nationality origin. An employer is not allowed to discriminate towards another individual because these factors. The purpose of this law is to protect the human rights and fair employment.

As you read through this article you can see Walmart functioning in the social movement theory specifically the resource mobilization theory. “Resource Mobilization Theory works very nicely to explain social movements because it explains the actions of individuals by just looking at selfish behavior and does not some sort of deviant, unexplained mechanism to force individuals to behave altruistically.” (Crawford) In this article re see Walmart mobilizing resources that would be beneficial to the workers but not so beneficial to Walmart. Walmart is the governing structure of its over 4,000 plus stores. (side note. I believe Walmart is

Walmart is the world’s largest retailer as well as the largest private employer with approximately 2.2 million employees. However, in previous years they have been in newspapers and newscast about the outrageous employment practices (Jordan,“the Good, the Bad”). I went to a Walmart to buy some house items and I saw an incident. An employee stepped into a juice spill on the floor and fell. She was feeling pain and had to go to the hospital. A week later, I asked an employee, “What did the manger do?” and he said they gave her the rest of the week off, but they did not cover her hospital bills. I am not a frequent shopper at Walmart because of their unfair labor practices. Exploitation of workers, low wages and health care are the main reasons why Walmart is not an advocate of customer and employee success.

During an interview, Jeffries, the CEO of the firm quoted: “We hire good-looking people in our stores. Because good-looking people attract other good-looking people, and we want to market to cool, good-looking people. We don 't market to anyone other than that.” During the same interview, he

Wal-Mart have been heavily criticized for unfair employee treatments which include “cap wages in certain positions, allow the hiring of more part-time workers in lieu of full-time workers, and revise scheduling practices in a manner that could force some employees to be on-call 24 hours a day (Baehr, 2004). However, as part of its ongoing efforts to foster diversity and equal employment opportunities, Wal-Mart established an Employment Practices Advisory Panel. The panel works with Wal-Mart's senior executives to cultivate and implement advanced developments to equal employment opportunity and diversity initiatives for the nation's largest private workforce. Wal-Mart is committed to the design and administration of their competitive health and financial benefits packages. Benefits associates are given a voice as a strategic leader where they help shape the future of health care, making decisions that impact the well-being of a diverse population of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart offers a reasonably priced medical insurance plan for those eligible employees. The health plan provides 100 percent cover for eligible

Even though Walmart is the largest retail store in the world, it doesn’t change the negative reputation they’re known for. Clearly the issue with Walmart is not sales, its poor treatment of employees and customers. Walmart’s actions do not match their purpose and mission. The number of retaliations from employees and

Walmart isn’t just a company that offers different sorts of products (food, clothing, tools, furniture, etc.), it is a huge company with more than 8,400 stores in 15 different countries and is also the source of work for more than 2