Walmat_Class_Action_Lawsuit

Wal-Mart lawsuit summary Wal-Mart lawsuit has been growing in the past years. Many employees have been concerned about Wal-Mart not following the FLSA rules and regulation due to not paying their employees for time work. Worker has also complained about the bad treatments they have been facing at work. Wal-Mart has also made it their mission to hire college students, and senior citizens who are supplementing an income that they already have or considering second-income for their families. But hiring at Wal-Mart has not always been a big issue; the biggest issue Wal-Mart is facing now is due to gender discrimination. According to the two part article on Wal-Mart (Global Giant), many women have been exploited, and not being compensated equally to men. Many women have contested to the fact that they are being paid lower then the men in comparable positions. Also, women feels like they have been target to work more hours, come in early then normal time, and do extra work then they would normally do. All of these complaints have landed to the Supreme Court. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec04/walmart_8-23.html Even though Wal-Mart is the biggest lucrative department store in the country, they still seem to struggle with their negative image in regards to being connected to law suits and sweat shops. So how can Wal-Mart create a safe and better company that is not associated with these negative remarks' I believe one way is to start conducting fair stander hiring practice: how should they identify candidates and select people to hire to address this problem' According to the EEOC, Wal-Mart’s London Distribution Center denied jobs to female applicants from 1998 through February 2005. In this case, EEOC found that Wal-Mart was being very sexist by hiring only men to operate in the warehouse distribution center of London. During the interview process, Wal-Mart made it very clear to the women who applied that warehouse positions were not suitable to women and they were only hiring 18- 24 years old young men. But the EEOC made Wal-Mart paid a heavy fine for participating in sexist hiring practices. In the end, Wal-Mart made it clear to their managers that going forward; warehouse positions should be open to all women who are well qualified. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/wal-mart-exposed-for-outd_b_483334.html How should Wal-Mart conduct the best hiring practices' Since most of Wal-Mart problems comes from the exposed for outdated and sexist hiring practices; Wal-Mart should make it their business to conduct fair hiring practice. One way to eliminate Wal-Mart negative hiring practice is to be straight forward about the job that is going to be performed. Sometimes many employees would leave a job because of the changes in the job description. It often happen because the employee either received incorrect or incomplete information during the application process. The director of Branch Operations for Stephen James Associates in Rockville, Mark Tootsey indicated that false expectations during the hiring process can be costly and hurt morale among existing staff. Another way to eliminate hiring discrimination is to re-write your job descriptions in order to check for any job languages that target a specific group; religion, age group, and gender. Many employers must understand that discriminating in public ads is wrong and can cause lawsuit for the company. Finally, a lot of employers make the mistake by hiring applicants that look and talk like them. In this case this would be wrong because it don’t actually give them a lot of diversity in the workplace. Beside, many EEOC attorneys will advise the employer that it is the wrong move to make because it will only cause you a lawsuit due the fact that all your employer are from the same ethnic group. So in conclusion, many employers like Wal-Mart should be mindful of hiring discrimination rules and regulations that can cause high penalties.