In an extremely short New York Times article, Stephen Greenhouse insists that at least one person was still working off the clock at WM--and names him:
But some employees say their managers still demand off-the-clock work. Aaron Payne, who earned $6.25 an hour working in the sporting goods department of a Wal-Mart in Camden, S.C., said the assistant manager made him work many hours last summer without pay.Question: Who is Mr. Payne of SC, and how did Mr. Greenhouse of NY find him? A search of Google and Lexis-Nexis turned up no previous "Aaron Payne" Wal-Mart appearances. Mr. Payne's treatment was deplorable, thought not inconsistent with Wal-Mart's quasi-official explanation that there will always be a few bad apples in management positions who disregard corporate policy. How can WM better stop this sort of worker abuse?"I'd be clocking out, and he'd point out all this stuff, saying, 'This isn't done, and if you leave before this is done, you won't have a job Monday morning,' '' said Mr. Payne, an Army veteran who served in Iraq. "It happened almost every night. I'd usually have to stay one and a half or two extra hours."
Posted by Kevin on November, 19 2004 at 02:47 PM
