Walmart Gives Weekly Bonuses to Keep Warehouse Workers

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Source: The Wall Street Journal.

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Walmart Gives Weekly Bonuses to Keep Warehouse Workers

Most U.S. Walmart warehouses give staff extra payments to forgo vacations or work extra hours as it ramps up for holidays

By Sarah Nassauer
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Aug. 6, 2021 8:00 am ET

Walmart Inc. is offering weekly bonuses to many warehouse employees to forgo August vacations, as the country’s biggest retailer ramps up for the holiday shopping season with a tight labor market and stretched supply chains.

The warehouse worker bonus varies by location and job type. Some workers have been offered $200, others as much as $500. The majority of Walmart’s 190 U.S. warehouses are offering the weekly bonus to those who stay on the job and, in some cases, work more hours, according to a person familiar with the situation.

Walmart aims to acknowledge the efforts of employees with incentives, and provide opportunity in a competitive job market, said a Walmart spokesman. The retailer’s distribution warehouses “continue to see high volume as we are preparing for peak season,” he said. Walmart is the country’s largest private employer with 1.6 million U.S. workers, most of which are hourly workers in stores and warehouses.

Retailers and other businesses are straining to hire workers and face a global supply chain snarled by the pandemic and other factors as demand for many products and services grows.

While the peak holiday shopping season kicks off in stores in the fall, it is already the holiday shopping season in the supply chain and warehouses of large retailers. Retailers aim to have warehouse operations running smoothly ahead of the season and are already handling some holiday inventory.

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Walmart is offering weekly bonuses to many warehouse employees to forgo August vacations, as the retailer ramps up for the holiday shopping season. Some workers have been offered $200, others as much as $500.

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SCOOP: Walmart is offering weekly bonuses to the majority of its warehouse workers to stay on the job as labor shortages, supply chain slowdowns hit retailers ahead of the holidays.

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[Sherman A1]

1. Hopefully we are starting to see the end of the

Walmart induced disposable workforce.

[marble falls]

2. These bonuses are BS. How about a permenent living wage? How about some benefits ...

... for "those wot brung ya?"

[PatSeg]

5. It's a start though

[jmowreader]

10. Walmart distribution center employees make more than store employees do

The order pullers - the lowest men and women on the totem pole - make $17 to $20 per hour. Forklift drivers make even more than that.

[Demsrule86]

13. Wal-Mart does offer benefits, fulltime positions and pay above $ 12.00 per hour.

It is a start.

[RussBLib]

3. at least they are trying

something

[marble falls]

6. With a gun in their ribs. Labor has not been so strong in decades. They can't afford a living wage..

... but can afford bonuses. They're not doing it because the three or four top Walmart heirs are bored stiff with cutting up a multibillion dollar pie every year. That "pie" is a verifiable fact. So's this: the social services claimed by Walmart employees is worth billions, too.

Think of it: Your tax dollar subsidizes Walmart. We're paying so Walmart can be on welfare.

[Demsrule86]

14. In Ohio, people who work fulltime for Walmart do not receive Medicaid. But those who

work for Starbucks do.

[marble falls]

15. Starbucks. Another group of millionaires profiting from taxpayers and underpaying wages.

[Demsrule86]

16. Yes indeed.indeed

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. WalMart is offering owner/operators good mileage to haul their trailers

for them and I'm going to take them up on their offer to contract my truck out to them for the duration of the holiday season.

The last time I hauled exclusively for them during the first go round with the pandemic, I made good money and they also included all maintenance for my truck at no extra charge as long as I didn't take on any other freight with other companies.

Say what you want about WalMart, but they do take care of their trucking division.

[marble falls]

7. I've been a Teamster. My dad was a Teamster organizer. No doubt about it: the drivers got ...

... treated good. I wasn't a driver. That year Fitz and his goons sat in Las Vegas and wrote a new rule that said anyone holding two offices in the union would get two checks.

All the Teamsters did for me was send me a magazine once a month.

Don't get me wrong. I believe in unions, my grandfather was a miner and hardcore UMW, I always felt the AFL/CIO always looking out for us working stiffs.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. +100. nt

[GB_RN]

8. Weekly Bonuses...

That they can kill at any time, as opposed to permanent raises. 🤦‍♂️

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. You got it

I have a friend who has worked at Walmart for over 15 years. He has Asperger's, has a hard time looking at people in the eye, but he works his ass off keeping his department stocked. When it was time to take his vacation, they asked him to postpone it until they could hire more help. He said no way. Did they offer him $$$ to postpone his vacation? Nope.

[GB_RN]

12. Of Course Not...

And they probably put it in his file that he was "uncooperative" when the team needed help, too.