Wal-Mart Will Pay Workers $640 Million

[firedupdem]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, said it will pay as much as $640 million to settle 63 lawsuits over wage-and-hour violations, ending years of disputes.

The discount retailer, which has more than 1.4 million employees, said the amount it pays will depend on how many claims are submitted by eligible workers and could range from $352 million to $640 million.

The agreement the company announced Tuesday ends the vast majority of such cases against Wal-Mart. Each settlement still must be approved by a trial court.

Wal-Mart faced 76 similar class action lawsuits in courts across the country as of March 31, the company said in its most recent 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Bentonville, Ark.-based company said many of the settled lawsuits were filed years ago and the allegations are not representative of the company Wal-Mart is today.

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[Hawkeye-X]

1. They should pay them LIVING wages and company-paid full bennies..

For the crap that Wal-Fart has done to them for YEARS.

Then MAYBE I'll shop there. MAYBE.

Hawkeye-X

[norepubsin08]

2. FUCK WAL MART

first of all ... it's a cult...I would love to see those evil bastards wiped off the face of the earth!!!

[Joe the Liberal]

3. Maybe they could avoid being sued so much if they.......

actually paid their employee's decent wages and provided better working hours. But wait this is Wal-Mart we're talking about, they would first have to allow unionization which won't happen any time soon. $640 million is chump change to Wal-mart though, they will have to lose a lot more than that to actually start getting the message.

[firedupdem]

4. They don't give a shit. God knows how many other lawsuits are

out there. They are horrible just horrible.