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Wal-Mart figures out how to keep cheap labor

Rick Outzen October 2, 2006

Wal-Mart,the nationâ€™s largest private employer, is capping wages, using more part-time workers and scheduling more workers on nights and weekends. The NY TImes has an article on it in today’s edition: Wal-Mart to Add More Part-Timers and Wage Caps

WakeUpWalMart.com gave the NY TIMES the following confidential Wal-Mart memo to its managers, instructing them how to answer questions from employees about new pay ranges and wage caps.Â WalMart Memo on Wage Caps (pdf)

WakeUpWalMart.com is a union-funded group that is critical of the retailer.

Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”