Wal-Mart Seeking Global Ethics Chief

[deadparrot]

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to hire a director of global ethics, a restructured position aimed at ensuring the retailer's code of conduct is applied across a growing global network of more than 6,200 stores and 1.6 million employees in 15 countries, the company said Thursday.

The job advertisement comes a year after embarrassing revelations that Wal-Mart's No. 2 executive, Tom Coughlin, had been pilfering company money and goods for years for his personal benefit.

Coughlin, 57, pleaded guilty Jan. 31 to fraud and tax charges for stealing money, gift cards and merchandise from the world's largest retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark.

Wal-Mart also faces a class-action lawsuit in California claiming it discriminated against female employees and is a repeated target of ethics allegations by organized labor and other critics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060303/ap_on_bi_ge/wal_mart_ethics

[Terran1212]

What a joke...

[Terran1212]

1. What a joke...

[TomInTib]

2. That headline is sadly hilarious and ironic. n/t

[SIU_Blue]

3. in other news, "Cheney seeking hunting partner"

This corporation is the embodiment of all that is wrong with globalized, free-market capitalism. I wish them the worst.

[rurallib]

4. $5.15/ hr plus employee discount

health benefits courtesy of US gummint.

[JWS]

7. The plan is to figure out how to ethically keep people in poverty. n/t

[philarq]

5. Can we nominate Karen Hughes---

she is doing such a great job now----

[JWS]

6. Is "Wal-mart ethics chief" another word for Mob enforcer?

Maybe they should hire Tony Soprano.

[kurth]

8. They need more big class-action lawsuits, not more bullshit execs

Blessed are Wal-Mart employees, for they are screwed

[CAG]

9. I'm sure they can find someone from an oil co., big pharma, or the RNC

to agree with them on what is ethical behaviour. I hear some Enron execs are still looking for a job....

[Orsino]

10. Hunting down and killing them off one by one? n/t