Walmart Legal Case Summary

In 2001, Donnell Battie sued Walmart because a 16-year-old shopper picked up the store’s public address microphone and announced “Attention Walmart customers: all black people must leave the store.” Battie claimed that this incident caused him “severe and disabling emotional and physical harm” and sued Walmart for $1,000,000. Battie’s lawyer argued that his client was a subject of racial discrimination because Walmart did not properly secure its speaker system. The outcome of the case was not stated but Walmart was forced to change the PA systems throughout all its

I spoke to the store manager, and according to the manager, this employee opened/ created a lawsuit against the Walgreens. According to the manager, there was an agreement for settlement between the employee and employee relationship lawyer. Once the settlement passed it was agreed that they employee would leave the company.

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).

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

Very quickly, I still think the answer is no. Assuming the officer was responding to an emergency and entering unannounced and unescorted, I believe he should have anticipated the guard dog as a possibility. Were there “Beware of Dog” signs or any similar warnings? If yes, then he definitely should have anticipated it. Plus, I would think that officers are trained to anticipate a guard dog or other similar dangers when entering a premise, especially if unannounced or unescorted. However, if the owner escorted the officer in or invited him in and did not warn the officer of the dog, then he could state a claim.

1. This story is about the Supreme Court’s decision. What process did this case have to go through to get to the Supreme Court?

Kelley acquired employment as a mattress salesman at Bed-Mart in January 2000. Upon employment, all sales personnel must sign a convent which includes both confidentiality provision - not and non complete provisions. In July 2000, Kelly ended his employment at Bed-Mart and began to work at Sleep America.

There are many public policies in place in this century that improve the quality of their work place one of them is The Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act of 2002 ("NO FEAR" Act). The NO FEAR Act is intended to reduce the incidence of workplace discrimination within the federal government by making agencies and departments more accountable. The company that I will be focusing on will be Walmart, is an American multinational retail corporation, in which operates a chain of discount department stores as well as warehouse stores. Walmart is the world’s largest company by revenue, according

The 2 firms had a similar profit margin, major difference exists in COGS and SG&A, while Sears had a higher gross profit margin, high expense (21.17%) is driving the total cost and expense of the two firms to the same level-about 95%.

Walmart is an American retail corporation that operates hypermarkets, discount department store and grocery stores globally (Walmart, 2016). It has grown to the largest retailer all over the world over past 50 years with more than 11,500 stores in 28 countries. Walmart has generated total revenue in the fiscal year 2016 in excess of US $480 billion (Walmart, 2016). On the other hand, however, Walmart has given rise to controversy, with criticisms of socially irresponsible practices in their core cooperation. Walmart has provided 152 pages long global responsibility report in 2016 about how remarkable the company is to suppliers, employees, environments and communities.

Samara Brothers, Inc., the respondent in this case is an organization that designs and manufactures children's clothing. Samara Brothers, Inc., focal products focus on spring or summer one-piece seersucker clothing decorated with appliques of hearts, flowers, fruits and other stuff to attract children. In addition, there are a number of other chain stores, such as JCPenney that sell this line of outfits under contract with Samara Brothers, Inc.(Vana, 2012), on the other hand, we have the petitioner Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., described as the nation's paramount known retailers, which deals in among other products children's clothing (Vana, 2013). This organization, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., contracted with one of its suppliers in 1995, Judy-Philippine, Inc., to manufacture a variety of children's clothing for sale during the 1996 spring/summer time.

Choosing a publicly traded company to analyze seems like an easy task but with the plethora of publicly traded companies, the decision was more difficult than anticipated. After much debate, I decided to analyze Target Corporation. The reason for my decision was the fact that a decent amount of my disposable income gets spent at this corporation yearly. After reading an article on Barron’s regarding Target’s stock, it appears that "Target’s stock looks like a bull’s-eye investment (Bennett, 2016).” The contents of the article confirmed that the corporation’s stock recently rose 1.9%, which exceeded the 1.4% gain analyst expected and their online sales surged 34% (Bennett, 2016).

The answer will be 1 .34 . this is a good sign that the company will be able to pay its obligations when they fall due . Based on both current ratios above , Sears company has a better current ratio at 1 .94 when compared with the current ratio of Walmart of only 1 .34 .B Sears Acid Test ratio Quick Assets 20201 1 .279354 Current Liabilities 15790 The quick assets are arrived at by adding the cash , cash equivalents ,receivables and marketable securities . The quick ratio is arrived at dividing the quick assets for the year 2007 of 20 ,201 . The quick ratio is 1 .28 times .Walmart Acid Test ratio Quick Assets 2423 0 .167566 Current Liabilities 14460 The quick ratio here is arrived at by dividing the quick assets of 2 ,423 for the year 2007 by the current liabilities amounting to 14 ,460 for the same year . The acid test ratio or quick ratio is .17 Based on the above data , Sears has a better quick ratio with its higher rate of 1 .28 as compared to the quick ratio or acid test ratio of Walmart at only .17 .C SOLVENCY LEVERAGE RATIOS Ability to pay long term obligations Sears 38700 The ratio of .85 . This shows that the company will be able to pay its obligations when the time of payment arrives .Walmart 45384 The Walmart will be able to pay its obligations when they

Walmart is one of the largest retailer stores, not only in the United States, but in the whole world. It employs around 2.3 million associates around the world. (“Walmart company fact”,n.d.). So with that large number, it is very normal to have some issues and some laws could be violated. The case I will discuss in my paper is the case of Nancy Stack one of the Walmart employees. Cancer is one of the serious and chronic diseases. When someone diagnosed with cancer that means it is the beginning of a long battle with this disease, which requires a determination and strong will from the patient, as well as the support of the family, friends, and even the employers to win the battle against the disease at the end. Nancy Stack is one of

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.