Walmart won’t pay its employees enough to afford Thanksgiving dinner, so they’re holding food drives for their employees. Seriously. It’s been reported that an Oklahoma City Walmart set up bins for underpaid associates to donate canned goods to other underpaid associates. Walmart workers have a better idea: Pay us enough to put food on the table.
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Six former employees of the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office who won a wrongful-termination lawsuit in 2012 will get to keep the $3 million awarded to them, according to a published report.
New Jersey’s “whistleblower” law enacted nearly 30 years ago to protect workers who have reported employer wrongdoing is under attack by corporations, according to a coalition of labor, consumer and community group leaders that have asked the state Supreme Court to strengthen it.