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Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs – New York Times

An internal memo sent to Wal-Mart’s board of directors proposes numerous ways to hold down spending on health care and other benefits while seeking to minimize damage to the retailer’s reputation. Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart.

In the memorandum, M. Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart’s executive vice president for benefits, also recommends reducing 401(k) contributions and wooing younger, and presumably healthier, workers by offering education benefits. The memo voices concern that workers with seven years’ seniority earn more than workers with one year’s seniority, but are no more productive.

To discourage unhealthy job applicants, Ms. Chambers suggests that Wal-Mart arrange for “all jobs to include some physical activity (e.g., all cashiers do some cart-gathering).”

The memo acknowledged that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, had to walk a fine line in restraining benefit costs because critics had attacked it for being stingy on wages and health coverage. Ms. Chambers acknowledged that 46 percent of the children of Wal-Mart’s 1.33 million United States employees were uninsured or on Medicaid.

Scum sucking maggots.

Update:

Michael informs me in his comment that I have unjustly defamed the scum sucking maggots of the world. Indeed…. apologies to any actual scum sucking maggots I may have offended.

Walmart is far worse than the insects of the earth. Insects are useful creatures. Walmart is a parasitic organism that preys on the poor to feed the greed of the wealthy inheritors of its evil empire.

Oh, and GET THE MOVIE and show it – often…

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3 Responses

  1. You are too kind. Scum sucking maggots are nature’s little cleanup crews. They serve a useful purpose. WalMart does no such thing.

    I haven’t stepped foot in a WalMart in over a decade and have no intention of ever doing so again. Like you, I feel for those who – through choice or necessity – are ’employed’ by WalMart, but purchasing goods from their ’employer’ wouldn’t help them a bit. They’re screwed and that sucks.

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