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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Wal-Mart Stores
Current Parent Company: Walmart
Penalty: $640,000,000
Year: 2008
Date: December 23, 2008
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: wage and hour violation
Mega-Scandal: Wage Theft
Violation Description: off-the-clock work
Level of Government: multiple
Action Type: private litigation
Court: multiple
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: multiple
Case Name: omnibus wage and hour settlement
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Arkansas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-discount stores
Source of Data: The dollar figures come from page 46 of the 2009 Wal-Mart Annual Report; online at (click here). Also see the company press release at (click here)
Notes: On December 23, 2008 Wal-Mart announced that it had agreed to pay at least $352 million and up to $640 million to settle 63 state and federal wage and hour cases that were pending against it across the country based on allegations that the company forced employees to work off that clock, that it failed to provide required meal and rest breaks and that it failed to pay overtime compensation. Wal-Mart did not provide a breakdown of how much would be paid in the individual cases, which are listed at (click here). The Wal-Mart 10-K filing for the year ending January 31, 2009 also provided a list of the cases covered by the omnibus settlement: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.