New Orleans We are now several weeks past Black Friday, the annual shopping extravaganza that seems to defy logic, but one hardcore, working mother desperate for Christmas bargains defined it as her annual “Super Bowl of shopping.” Walmart company representatives have described this year’s day after Thanksgiving shopping blowout as their best ever. OUR …
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Hard to Ignore: Walmart in Bad Trouble
Little Rock Ok, Walmart is a huge business behemoth with millions of workers and billions of dollars in revenue, but the deafening roar of bad news is hard to paint a smiley face over and pretend everything is coming up roses in Bentonville. The emperor’s nakedness in India, where the India FDI Watch Campaign and …
Is the DOL Finally Moving on Employer Abuses of Independent Contractor Classifications?
New Orleans On March 13th the United States Department of Labor (DOL) is taking comments on the ways and means of an almost $2 million dollar survey of over 10,000 workers nationally that they have proposed as part of their so-called Misclassification Initiative. What they are trying is to suss out through these interviews is …