Wal-mart set to remove 35,000 Part-time jobs because Obummercare

http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/09/25/wal-mart-returning-to-full-time-workers-obamacare-not-such-a-job-killer-after-all/
And turn them into to full time.

 

and the reason is

Wal-Mart’s business is going south due to the company’s penchant for putting politics and the squeeze on Wal-Mart employees ahead of the kind of customer satisfaction that produces prosperity over the long-term.


In fact, Wal-Mart’s unwillingness to pay most of their workers a livable wage, while avoiding enough full-time employees to properly run a retail outlet, has led to the company placing dead last among department and discount stores in the most recent American Customer Satisfaction Index—a position that should now be all to familiar to the nation’s largest retailer given that Wal-Mart has either held or shared the bottom spot on the index for six years running.

While the company’s trend toward temporary employees has allowed the retailer to avoid its responsibilities under the Affordable Care Act—a law that Wal-Mart publicly supported only to turn around after passage and work to avoid providing health care benefits to employees—they’ve managed to tank their store sales in the process.

 

Good article however I think the credit does not go to Obamacare. Seems Walmart is figuring out that a well trained, well paid staff are more competent, friendly and motivated. Reducing to a part time staff is a short term gain.

 

Well I'm glad to hear their employees are going to get healthcare. =]

 

Me also and actually the healthcare is part of their overall employee benefit package that will make them happier to work there, so its sort of about Obamacare.

 

yeah...also something to think about..Wal-Mart is now Americas number one employer? God help us..what does that say about the recovery when the number one provider of jobs does not pay liveing wages?

 

The way I read the article is that Walmart is finding out that paying people below minimum wage level jobs is not long term cost effective. Happy employees equal better work and if your company just shits on you all the time, what do you care when it comes to anything involving your job? Hopefully this a management philosophy that will push Walmarts to a more Homedepot/Costco model.

 

dirrect from the link..pretty straight forward..

 

Maybe you should spell it out for me then because Im not sure what point your trying to make other than complaining about the economy.

 

They always have had it is my understanding.

 

If Wal-Mart continues to sell things cheaper than elsewhere (winco has them beat in food) people will still go there regardless of customer service.

 

And I agree. Walmart is like the Salvation Army. They give a lot of jobs to people who would probably never get one. Many are partially disabled or otherwise. So I make it a point to have great patience when I am there. I also like the low prices.

When I worked for the state in the employment department I dealt with the people fired or laid off from Walmart. They made (about 15 years ago) about $13-14 per hour and had full benefits. Granted it’s not ma huge wage but it’s better than fast food places.

 

Not me. I haven't shopped at Wal-Mart in a year. I went there to get a Nexus 7 a year ago and there was not a single person in the electronic's department. I had to wander the store for five minutes to find someone to get someone in the electronic department. That person should up and didn't have the keys. I left and went to Best Buy and was in and out in less than a minute. If they had full time people in each department it would make a huge difference, it was not worth the headache to save $5-$10 or whatever the difference was.

 

True but its not just customer service we are talking about. Stocking shelves, cleaning the store, facing shelves, having shopping supplies available, having enough competent check out clerks to keep the lines moving and small. All those start to go away with an understaffed company, who's employees don't give a shit.

Exactly how bad Walmart is to work for seems to be in in question though. I've always heard them used as an example of american corporate greed and employee abuse, seems Denny and BP know more than I do on that front.

I agree that Costco is a bad example also, Costco and Walmart are not really comparable as retail stores. Doesn't walmart have Sam's club though? From what I hear a Samsclub/Costcco comparison might be more accurate. Just guessing though, since I've never been in a Sam's club

 

The average Walmart "associate," Wake Up Walmart reports, makes $11.75 an hour. That's $20,744 per year. Those wages are slightly below the national average for retail employees, which is $12.04 an hour. They also produce annual earnings that, in a one-earner household, are below the $22,000 poverty line.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-pay#ixzz2fw5cqmPy

 

ahh how about the fact that we have lost so many high paying/manufacturing jobs that the nation has become service industry food stamp reliant ?

 

So that's less that when I dealt with them. But it seems it's in the ballpark with respect to the national average. And it's easily a living wage so I see no problems.

 

I worked for winco while going to college. Winco does seem Much more well ran in certain areas (Corvallis) and not so much in others (Gresham, gateway). Winco workers make minimum wage to like $16 an hour with medical benefits if full time and employee stock options after youre vested.

I'm not sure adding these things will help change the culture of Wal-Mart. Tbh, I think the Wal-Mart in happy valley is ran much better than the winco on 82nd