Wal-Mart figures out how to keep cheap labor

Morning paper Wal-Mart,the nation’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.  WalMart Memo on Wage Caps (pdf)

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

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