Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their way home

Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by smileysteve on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:09PM (#14472090)

> Because taxpayers are subsidizing Walmart's business

We can assume then that taxpayers are subsidizing all businesses with employees making under $11 and hour, so why isn't the government changing minimum wage laws from $7.25/hr and $2.35/hr

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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by Chaebixi on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:27PM (#14472245)

There's something especially slimy about the #1 company in the Fortune 500 consciously doing it. And by it, I mean pay its employees so little they need to go on welfare, and then directing them to the welfare office.

> so why isn't the government changing minimum wage laws from $7.25/hr and $2.35/hr

Because it's been captured by people who like to pay their employees as little as possible.

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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by smileysteve on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:30PM (#14472264)

Slimy about consciously, doing what? Paying a minimum of 122% of what they are legally required to? Paying an average of 191% of what they're legally required to?

[If nearly doubling "expectations" is slimy, what does it take to exceed expectations]

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Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ... by Chaebixi on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:36PM (#14472315)

You're confusing legality with ethics and morality. You can behave can quite unethically and immorally while still meeting or exceeding legal requirements.

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