Bloomberg reports that Walmart plans to stop paying employees hired after January 1, 2011, an extra dollar-per-hour when they work on Sundays, changing a longtime policy in an effort to cut costs.
The move will not affect any of the company’s existing 1.4 million US employees; it also won;t affect employees in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where local laws prevented employees from being paid the extra money.
"We regularly review our compensation programs and we are confident Wal-Mart’s pay and benefits are as good if not better than other retailers," says spokesman Greg Rossiter said.
The move will not affect any of the company’s existing 1.4 million US employees; it also won;t affect employees in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, where local laws prevented employees from being paid the extra money.
"We regularly review our compensation programs and we are confident Wal-Mart’s pay and benefits are as good if not better than other retailers," says spokesman Greg Rossiter said.
- KC's View:
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I have no personal experience with this, but I wonder if this will create issues down the road when some people working on Sunday at the local Walmart are being paid on a different scale than others. Maybe it isn’t a big issue, but it could breed some discontent. And the last thing Walmart needs is discontent.
