The Notification And Federal Employee Antidiscrimination And Retaliation Act Of 2002 Impact On Walmart Corporation

The class action lawsuit claims that Walmart intentionally locked employees in its stores after the employees were off the clock. During those unpaid overtime hours, employees were expected to stock merchandise, count registers, etc., and they were not allowed to leave the store. The amount of compensation for the employees is unknown but, as a result, Walmart was forced to change their policies about overtime hours.

It is considered as a milestone because Walmart has been trying every trick in the book to avoid unionization of its workforce. The working conditions in most of the Walmart stores where poor and sometimes they force their workers to overtime, sometimes they reduce the normal working hours without consent from the employees, they are also accused of gender discrimination. They were able to do all these activities because of the low bargain power of the employees. The right to certify union in response to unfair labour practices are also incorporated after this incident So unionization of their store is a historic event and it

Wal-Mart had been criticized for its record in employee relations. Wal-Mart had no unions, despite

The employer must conduct an internal investigation by interviewing the parties involved and witnesses. The article also mentions the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Age Discrimination Act of 1967 to explain the root of the guidelines, and gives further analysis using different clarification approaches to clarify the legal concerns involved. In order to describe prevention methods, the article straightforwardly states what a manager prerequisites. Training and informing the employees is the law. The article’s approach and statements mentioned how to deal with legal matters and to make sure that they are valid. Managing harassment and discrimination problems is not only a responsibility, but also makes good business sense. Maintaining a workplace free of discrimination and harassment by doing whatever is necessary to prevent complaints from occurring in the first place, and stopping them before they reach the level of lawsuits are acceptable methods of dealing with legal issues.

Walmart however claims that their managers can handle complaints and grievance and that their employees do not need to pay a union to advocate for them.

Legislation by state and federal arms of government has made discrimination in workplaces illegal. This piece of legislation goes further to stipulate the rights and responsibilities of both the subordinates and their employers in the workplace. This legislation aims to bring sanity in the workplace by ensuring that both groups are accountable.

In the United States Walmart effects negatively retail worker wages as well as retail employment. In addition, University of California researchers found that workers in Walmart earn on average 12.4 % less than retail workers as a whole (UNI Global Union, 2012). Walmart’s workers demonstrated thier dissatisfaction with working conditions and low wages by protesting on Black Friday 2012, which is the day the company is making the biggest profit. Walmart workers stood up and more than 1,000 demonstrations in a hundreds encouraging Walmart to act ethicaly towards them. For workers protesting it was a huge risk as they are oficially not protected by any labour union (Progress, 2012). Another evidence that Walmart treats its employees unfairly are discrimination claims. Women workers in California pursue discrimination claims saying that Walmart systematically treats them unfairly. According to women workers retail giant denied to pay raises and promotions due to gender bias (Levine & Gupta, 2011).

Facts: In Davis Supermarkets, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board 2 F.3d 1162 (DC. Cir. 1993), the Court was asked to decide a dispute between an employer (Davis) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB had found that Davis committed unfair labor practices, which Davis disputed. A union (Local 23) was attempting to organize a local at Davis. Several employees signed authorization cards for the union. Six of those employees were terminated in a mass layoff that impacted eight employees. Davis then fired or constructively fired three more employees who had filed authorization cards. Davis's chairman of the board then informed employees that he wanted them to sign authorizations with the Steelworkers, a competing union. However, Davis maintained that the employees were terminated for cause, not because they signed authorization cards for Local 23.

Protecting employees against reprisals when they report, in good faith, actions they feel violate the law or these standards.

Walmart employees, customers, and suppliers have seen their fair share of Walmart’s bad side. While Walmart’s founder, Sam Walton, claims to make their employees feel like they “are working for them” and that they care Walmart has done such a horrific job with the way they treat their employees that one day, the workers decided to walk out and go on strike. They walked out on the grounds that they “were emblazoned with the workers’ grievances: poverty wages, miserly benefits, dignity denied” (Eidelson 1). They felt like they weren’t only taking a stand against Walmart, but also taking a stand for the younger generations to come. Walmart’s employees are getting treated unfairly and are underpaid. The CEO’s, Michael Duke, annual salary gives him more money in an hour than an employee who works full-time would make in an entire year. In Bangladesh, over 100 workers “died in a factory without outdoor fire escapes, NGOs blame Walmart for pushing deadly shortcuts” (Eidelson 1). Not only are the employees being poorly paid by Walmart, but they are paying their life to Walmart just to make enough money to barely get by. Walmart even made a pregnant employee work around chemicals that eventually made her ill. After a trip to the doctor, Walmart allowed her to be put on a lighter duty, so they made her a door greeter; however, they

I will discuss the legislation and regulations the United States Government enacted during the 20th Century to eliminate discriminatory practices by organizations. Through unions, employees grouped together to fight and change hazardous working conditions by lobbying management and the United States Government. Change is necessary and often met with steep opposition, and unions dealt with legislators that worked to prevent change or silence the complaints raised by lobbyist. Minority and women workers overcame the opposition and continued to fight for better protections and regulations that ultimately help grow the economy while equipping workers with the necessary skills to advance into management positions.

While employed at Store X no training on the prevention of sexual harassment or harassment ever took place. Prevention and education is key to informing employees of their rights should a right be violated and to keep the discrimination from happening. If training

Judges ruled that Walmart was in violation of labor relations laws and must reinstate those who were fired from the company (Malcolm). The labor relations laws protect the rights of employees and employers (NLRB). They state that “employees have the right to self-organization, to form, to join, or assist labor organizations to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection, and shall also have the right to refrain from any or all of such activities except to the extent that such right may be affected by an agreement requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment as authorized in section (NLRB, 8a). Knowing that the workers were able to convene and were protected under these labor laws, it shows that this act of “civil disobedience” they were labeled with was in fact not civil disobedience at all. Though Walmart claims they were “defending their company by imposing “consequences” on those who did not show up for work (Jamieson), this action was labelled abuse of national labor laws.

Wages and benefits are not the only complaints Wal-Mart is now facing. Recently, Wal-mart was accused of denying women equal pay and opportunities for promotion (Bianco, 2003). Wal-Mart attempts to distract from their past and present diversity issues by devoting an entire section of their webpage to this subject but until Wal-Mart can show statistical proof reflecting their claims of fair wages, good benefits, and equal treatment, the complaints by the unions and consumers will continue. These upper level management decisions are having a negative impact on the company and providing an unhealthy organizational culture for the organization.

While researching this topic, so many things were found to be eye opening. One in which is the way that Wal-Mart conducted themselves when they had to manage their employees. How they dealt with promoting them and demoting them. Last year Wal-Mart started a new management style and wanted to promote more family time and create a less workload on each of the managers and employees. Therefore, they changed the schedule to becoming 3 days on and 3 days off which created more room for managers to fall into the field. Managers would be thrown into the position of an area of the store they knew nothing about and expected to understand each thing and help customers find exactly what they