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Originally Posted by Nasty
This is not about minimum wage jobs, this is about a company that considers 32 hrs or less a full week so they don't have to pay any benefits. This also has nothing to do with obamacare, taxpayers have been picking up the walmart tab for years while Sam Walton's heirs are worth around 100 billion dollars. And I don't believe the strike originated in the stores, it originated in the walmart warehouses where workers claim they regurly worked 10-12 hrs a day for 8 hrs pay. I have no problem with min wage jobs, want better you can get a trade or go to school. I do have a problem when my tax money is used to offset a walmart employees pay.
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Working 10-12 for 8 hours pay is illegal and something should be done if true.
If you are upset about walmart who pays more than min wage, then you ALSO need to be mad at ALL the other places who combined that pay min wage have more employees than walmart.....
Kroger also has a 32 hour work week, but if you work 32+ hours you get Benefits. So you could work 35 hours instead of the 40 and get benefits.
I believe lots of companies will soon follow this model as Kroger is starting to ramp up hiring more part time workers. Why should a company have to pay for benefits when you as a person will soon be REQUIRED to buy them or if you qualify get them for FREE...
UPS -- You must work at $8.50 an hour, very hard work (up to 70lbs box every few seconds), very little heat in the winter and no air conditioning in the summer. If you make it a YEAR, you then get benefits, and 18 Months to get family benefits... No Paid Hollidays for a year, No Sick days ever, you start earning vacation after one year. (so two years you get vacation)
Lots of Big Companies can be listed ....