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• Are we starting to see a pattern yet?

  "I have worked with Wal-Mart for 13 years as a full-time employee and now they won't give me 40 hours..." | Read More

• Young and healthy employees only!

  I worked at Wal-Mart for 12 years and have witnessed and suffered many abuses at the hands of Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart discriminates against people with medical conditions and the elderly by... | Read More

• Alfred Miranto on Unsafe Work Conditions and Discrimination

  "... I frequently had to take ibuprofen just to get out of bed because weight belts were never available nor was another employee there to help." | Read More

• Wal-Mart’s Workers Compensation: A Pain in the Back

  "I had to use an electric cart to get around. The cart was moved while i was at lunch or in the restroom at least seven times. One time Management even found it in the walk-in freezer. It is clear that I am being discriminated against and hazed because of my disability." | Read More

• Wal-Mart’s quest for a younger, cheaper workforce

  "I have noticed that my store seems to schedule all the older people for late night duty...specifically the 2-11 shift. Some have successfully battled for early hours, but now we are being told that if we change our availability, we will be knocked back to part-time." | Read More

• An employee discusses how Wal-Mart treats pregnant woman

  "My heart goes out to AH at the loss of her baby. Shame on Wal-Mart." | Read More

• Forcing Employees To Work Off The Clock

  "I worked for Wal-Mart for 17 years and during this time, I experienced discrimination and was forced to work off the clock in order to fulfill managerial expectations." | Read More

• Discrimination Deli in Fallon, Nev.

  "I know for a fact that my male co-workers are getting higher wages than I do with no experience, and I have 8 years experience." | Read More

• Meet Jane Doe

  After working at Wal-Mart for nine years with a reasonable accommodation for her disability, Wal-Mart suddenly denied the accommodation. They required her to take a leave of absence and have yet to reinstate her. She has been essentially fired. This is her story. | Watch the Video

• Anonymous on Discriminatory Raise Practices

  "...the district human resource person tells us we need to vote republican, about how the bill would pass if the democrats got elected into power and how Wal-mart likes their associates to speak for themselves. Is that not a little unethical?" | Read More

• Anonymous on Gender Descrimination

  "They are trying to make it harder on us so we will quit and they can hire part-time without insurance and lower pay!" | Read More

• Anonymous on Age-Based Termination

  "Wal Mart is systematically targeting anyone over 40 years of age for firings through systematically assigning the heaviest, most back breaking jobs to that class of people in the facility. Managers are encouraged to pressure senior employees into quitting and firing to ensure that young strong backs are maintained in the facility." | Read More

• Anonymous mother of two

  "I am not available at night. That is not an option for me, being a single mom. I feel like I am getting pushed out of my full-time job because of being a single mom." | Read More

• Carole Turner, Eau Claire, Wis.

  "I 'open doored' my coach in the maintenance department for racial comments he made that were inappropriate and racist. On another occasion, he told me that “women don’t belong in the maintenance dept”. And on yet another occasion, that he “only gets lucky on Fridays...” which would explain a lot of things about him." | Read More

• Anonymous in Alberta/Nova Scotia, Canada

  "I called the Manager of the original store and he said that I was not trustworthy enough to come back to the store because I went behind his back to the Regional Manager about getting a transfer the first time." | Read More

• L.R. in Florida

  "They are cutting the hours of the full time people and still hiring new people. When an associate asks if they were going to have to do the same work in 6 hours they were doing in 8 management replied: "Yes and if the older people can't keep up they will have to leave."" | Read More

• Anonymous, Off the Clock

  "After 35 years of management and three degrees, I was terminated for helping customers while checked out on lunch." | Read More

• A Grandmother on Scheduling

  "He had to take a class this summer to complete one of his courses, it was from 7:30 AM to 9 AM. He told his supervisor at Wal-Mart and they fired him because they needed him to be at work at 9 AM. This was absurd, they could have adjusted his hours" | Read More

• Carolyn in Richmond, KY

  "I was terminated on April 14th of this year for chasing a shoplifter. The Market Asset Protection Manager said "i pursued the suspect too far.' There was a male hourly associate with me, the asset protection associate, and he was never coached for this." | Read More

• Anonymous on Unfair Termination

  "I was fired while on medical leave. I had pancreatic surgery, they said the policy changed while I was on medical leave." | Read More

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