As i looked up facts about Wal-mart I started to read about the pay they give their employees. Wal-mart’s retail employees do not get to work a full 40 hour week, instead they work 34 hours a week. This does not allow these employees to qualify for a full time job, so they do not receive the benefits of working full time. The employees are paid $10.84 an hour, which added up on their 34 hour weeks, puts them earning under the poverty mark for income in the United States. While these people are earning under the national poverty income, there are people in the headquarters and CEO’s earning several millions, MILLIONS.
There are billions of dollars out there that Wal-mart could add to the income of their retail-employees that would help increase their income, and because they are not doing this, it makes me personally not like their company. I think that it is awful that they as a corporation do not let a majority of their workers work the full 40 hour week and make a livable incomes. If they are going to not allow the 40 hour work week then I think that they should increase the pay amount so that their income is still livable and that they can support themselves, let alone their family off of it. I think that the reason why i think that their pay is so unreasonable is because i know that they could, as a company, afford to increase the pay for the retail employees. Overall, Wal-mart is cheating their employees.
http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/#anti-union
