Walmart
Son's Full-Time Hours Cut Without Notice, Unemployment Challenged

My son is a good boy, 25 years old and a hard worker. He has never been in trouble, and has worked since he was 15. He worked at the walmart for a year, and left this past summer. He was paid $9.00 an hour to change oil, and was given good reviews for his work.

Walmart managers would send people home with no notice, in order to save a few bucks that week. It is a common practice. He may work 20 hours in a week, 25 the next, or be laid off the next. He was considered "full time".

What kind of awful company is this? What other company would expect "full time" employees to live this way, paying them poverty level wages and then not even letting them know from one week to the next if they will get any work at all?

When my son was laid off the last time, he applied for state unemployment benefits. Do you know that the walmart manager even challenged his right to draw unemployment, and the State of Alabama sided with him?

Please consider shopping at stores other than Walmart. Things may be cheaper there, but the cost to others in your community is very high. And the prices aren't really low. They are just spread out and hidden. You pay Walmart's employee costs in taxes for subsidized housing, food and healthcare. These are the costs decent and honorable companies pay themselves.

Walmart just looks cheap. It is, in fact, a very expensive place to shop.

Company: Walmart
Country: USA
State: Alabama
City: Attalla

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