Alameda County (CA) suit alleges Wal-Mart cheated workers

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Alameda County suit alleges Wal-Mart cheated workers
Bay City News

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Three former Wal-Mart employees, including one who worked at the company's San Leandro store, have filed suit in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that Wal-Mart manipulated their time cards to cut their pay.

The suit, filed Friday by Jessica Grant of the well-known Fred Furth plaintiff's law firm in San Francisco, seeks class-action status for about 215,000 current or former employees who worked at Wal-Mart or Sam's Club stores in California since 1997.

The suit seeks millions of dollars in back pay and punitive damages.

Wal-Mart officials couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

The suit charges that Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Ark., deleted thousands of hours of time worked from employees' payroll records by erasing overtime hours and by penalizing employees who forgot to punch in after their meal breaks by denying them pay for the remainder of those days.

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1. I promise to spend not even a penny at Walmart this year

[Vidar]

2. China and Canada beat Walmart on unions. Go California.