Walmart offers Thanksgiving workers measly discount in place of holiday pay

[mysteryowl]

Source: The Guardian

Staff at retail giant NOT entitled to time-and-a-half holiday pay.
Walton family that owns Walmart worth more than $190bn.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday mark the beginning of the festive season in the US, but Walmart workers are not feeling the cheer. The world's largest retailer will not be offering staff extra pay for working some of the busiest days of the year. Instead they will be offered a discount to shop at their own store.

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The worker shared a flyer promoting the 10% discount offered Walmart employees in December, with another 15% discount offered to workers who work shifts from Wednesday to Saturday, to use once on TWO specific days in December. (Dec. 5th & 6th)

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/27/walmart-thanksgiving-workers-holiday-staff-pay

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EVEN with their HUGE tax cut they don't have anything extra to spare.
Trump tax cuts provided Walmart with an estimated $2.2bn annual savings.

Booooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Wow. How pathetic. And they'll blame the likes of Amazon etc. (Walmart mgmt) for doing ...

this. I am so glad that my sister finally retired away from Walmart a couple of years back.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. This is the reality of

working Retail. Big F-ing deal. Just another Tax write off for the Walton's.

[oregonjen]

3. I'd take Costco over Walmart

At least Costco is closed on Thanksgiving and the employees receive holiday pay. Also, each employee was given a certificate for a free turkey. Retail is tough. Rude, moody customers make for a difficult time for employees any time of the year, but especially during the holidays.

[LaurenOlimina]

5. Costco is a much better company.

[Aquaria]

14. HEB gives free turkeys to their employees

And holiday pay to both full time and part time employees.

Plus, we get a year-round 10% discount on all store brand items, and an extra 10% off during Xmas week.

Getting our free turkey early tomorrow morning, when the store opens. This year, I'm doing the cold water defrost, because I wouldn't have had room in the fridge this year to let it sit around for a week defrosting. The price of prepping things in advance took up all the spare room I had.

[42bambi]

26. I love shopping at HEB! The family owned store began

more than 100 years ago in a small, family‑owned store in the Texas Hill Country. Today H‑E‑B serves families all over Texas and Mexico in 155 communities, with more than 340 stores and over 100,000 employees.
Happy Free Turkey Day!

[TexasBushwhacker]

36. And they gave 15% ownership in the company to their employees 5 years ago

And their employees just seem happy.

[cstanleytech]

17. My brother got a two week paycheck from Publix but he is full time.

[SKKY]

4. I believe I'm going to go ahead and cancel my Sam's Club membership.

I may have the need from time-to-time to shop at Walmart, I don't feel the need to pay 60 bucks a month to buy more of Walmart's stuff in Bulk.

[Aquaria]

16. Good grief.

$60/month? It's that high? I thought it was something like $45 for the basic membership, and $100 for the rewards membership. But I'll admit that it's been nearly 20 years since I had a membership there.

Granted, Costco costs more at $60/year ($5/month), while the rewards membership comes out to $120/year ($10/month). It's easier for me to get to and from Costco than it is with Sam's, even though they're only a mile away from each other. I can also use Costco's gas in my car, which I can't do with the crap that Walmart/Sam's sells. Costco seems to have better quality products, too. And that they treat their employees so much better on top of it all?

That makes it a no-brainer to pay a bit extra for the Costco membership, at least for me.

[SKKY]

21. Yep. 60 bucks. It's a bit further for me to shop at Costco than Sam's Club...

...but 5 minutes is a small price to pay to make a statement. On a side note, when I saw the "Good grief." I thought you were going to lambaste me for over-reacting.


On edit, I realized that it is in fact $45.00. My bad. Either way, I'm still not renewing and will shop at Costco.

[BuffaloJackalope]

6. Walmart: parasite corporation

[Wuddles440]

7. Another reason...

....as if any decent person would need one, to NEVER, EVER patronize this greedy, heartless organization. Fuck them!

[BirdandSquirrel]

8. As A Former Walmart Employee

I can tell you that this has been their policy for the last 4 or 5 years. The discount is automatically applied to your discount card, and it is taken on your 1st purchase in which you use your card, starting at 12:01 AM on the 5th. I was the front end manager and watched as overnight employees bought a soda, or a bag of chips and swiped their discount card and had their bonus 15% applied to that purchase. Boom, gone forever.

Also, December 7th will be the day everything from the Xmas blitz that has not sold, gets marked down. Cheaper to wait for the markdown, but we got no 10% discount on markdowns. Walmart works on the same principle as the old coal mine stores. They pay you crap wages and then charge you high prices for basic necessities. The last month since I was fired, has been the least stressful month that I have had in 35 years.

[pm_me_grey_paint]

9. Its a seperate card now

My sister works at Walmart. The discount last year was on a separate physical card separate from the discount card and will be again this year. She is pissed though that the two days it is valid is between pay periods this year instead of on a pay week. There is also talk online among associates to use their protected PTO to call in since the discount is not worth the abuse customers hurl at them.

[PatSeg]

25. That sounds pretty intentional

They probably don't even want to give them the extra discount. The company is rotten to the core.

[NotHardly]

10. We have not shopped at Walmart for 20 years (and counting) billionaire scum, their Daddy

would be so proud of them

[rurallib]

12. !

Although we have bought little from them for many years, it seemed like there was always something that only Walmart had since they had run competition out.

But I haven't been into one of their stores for about 3 months and it makes me feel much better.

[Scalded Nun]

11. They really want to be 'America's Company Store'

[joanbarnes]

13. Just like the good old "Company store" from old days-spend your paycheck here.

[Sherman A1]

15. "Charming"

[redstatebluegirl]

18. That would barely cover how much they raise prices during the holiday.

I REFUSE to shop at Walmart! I stopped a few years ago. I shop sales and use coupons at our locally owned grocery store.

[paleotn]

19. Cheap bastards!

[DiverDave]

20. Trie story:

I delivered to a walmart store at this time of year, several years ago. Went to bathroom and walked by a big box with a sign over it saying " help our less fortunate associates this holiday season"
Asking poor people to help put other poor people.
DISPICABLE

[Hassin Bin Sober]

22. Yeah, there was a big blow up in the media about that a couple years ago.

Of course, Walmart whined about having their feeling hurt when they did a nice thing.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

23. I have a great idea! Maybe they should pay their employees in Walmart script.

Redeemable for good and rent and Walmart owned properties.


And I have liberal friends who think Walmart isn’t the type of job that should be unionized.

[appalachiablue]

30. +1. Walmart was busted a few years ago for paying their employees

in scrip at a store in Mexico.

I don't how the swine get way with this; how are employees supposed to pay their bills with discount coupons?

Back to the old time Gilded Robber Baron Age.

[maxrandb]

24. At the grocery store I worked at in Ohio in the early 80s

We got doubletime for working national holidays, and 8 hours of holiday pay.

If I worked 8 hours on Thanksgiving, I got 24 hours of pay.

If I didn't work Thanksgiving, I got 8 hours of pay. Also got 8 hours of pay for my birthday.

Somehow, the founder of the grocery chain I worked at was able to pay us like that and still live in a mansion

The last 40 years have fucked an entire generation.

But hey, at least some ignorant fucksticks have been able to "own the libs", so it's all good... right?

[appalachiablue]

31. The last 40 years is a nightmare, the end has to come.

The last 40 years have fucked an entire generation.

But hey, at least some ignorant fucksticks have been able to "own the libs", so it's all good... right?

[TexasBushwhacker]

37. Sam died in '92

It's the heirs that are greedy motherfuckers. They still own 51% of the stock, so they can't blame their fucked up policies on "the shareholders because they ARE the shareholders.

[DeminPennswoods]

27. Is this not illegal?

I believe that all employees who work on a holiday are entitled to time and half regardless of union or non-union affiliation.

[AtheistCrusader]

28. They probably creatively schedule workers so they aren't full-time.

[DeminPennswoods]

33. Yes, evidently it is legal to pay regular pay

on holidays. Another issue for Dems to address, imho.

[demosincebirth]

38. Depends on State's labor laws

[sl8]

43. Are you aware of any states that mandate holiday pay for private companies? n/t

[demosincebirth]

45. I worked in Ca., and they enforce Cafornia labor laws...and no, they don't mandate holiday pay.

They do mandate overtime pay for any time over eight hours a day. McDonald's, in our area pay 12 bucks and hour.

[sl8]

48. Thanks. n/t

[Sapient Donkey]

42. I don't think there are any federal laws for that.

I remember a couple years ago someone I knew was telling me that the company she worked for didn't give her any extra pay to work on holidays. She either worked at CVS or Walgreens which seemed unreliable to me since it was such a large company. Although, I think she said it was 'cause she started working just a couple weeks before. Still, I don't see why that should matter. Anyway, I was always under the impression there was a law that mandated such pay, but I did some research then and found that to not be the case. At least not the case in Texas. Not sure about other states having their own laws for it.

[BigmanPigman]

29. I picketed out front of Walmart on Black Friday

due to their unfair labor practices. I also boycott them and instruct my family not to go there for gifts for me. There are plenty of big box stores besides them.

[appalachiablue]

32. Good for you BP! Have a nice Thanksgiving.

[BigmanPigman]

34. Same to you!

🦃 🍁 🥂 🍽 🌩 🕙 Stay safe, dry and get rest.

[demosincebirth]

39. Never set a foot in a Walmart.

[BigmanPigman]

40. Due to their labor policies?

[demosincebirth]

44. Yup.

[BigmanPigman]

47. Yeah, a kindred spirit!

[cstanleytech]

35. So friday is Black Friday is Thursday now Brown Thursday as in a steaming pile of shit?

[Sapient Donkey]

41. Why do they have to be such scumbags?

This is like something I would expect a struggling company to reluctantly do and feel really bad about it, but only do it because there are no other options. I suppose a $129 billion in profit (yes, profit. Not revenue) could be considered struggling in upside down world.

[meadowlander]

46. So then what is the point of having Federal holidays?