Walmart is noted for the Employee Ill-treatment, stories persist about wage law violations, inadequate health care, exploitation of workers, and the retailer’s anti-union stance.

1. MNC
Ethical Issue
Corporate Governance Of Walmart

2. Wal-Mart
 It is one of the largest retailer, second-largest
corporation, and largest private employer (with 1.3 million
workers).
 Case: Employee Ill-treatment
 Situation: Wal-Mart earns a net income of over $11 billion
previous year(2014), enough money to remedy some
questionable workplace practice. Still stories persist
about wage law violations, inadequate health care,
exploitation of workers, and the retailer’s anti-union
stance
 Impact: All these created some 5,000 lawsuits are filed
against Wal-Mart each year, or roughly 17 suits per
working day.
 Intention: Make higher profits and more expansion.

3. Wal-Mart:Issues
 Anti-Union Stance
 After workers at a Wal-Mart store in Québec successfully
unionized, Wal-Mart announced that it would close that
store, citing “economic reasons.”
 Wal-Mart employees in central Florida formed a workers
group, the Wal-Mart Workers Association, in an attempt to
improve working conditions and air grievances against the
company. By January, the group had enlisted
approximately 300 employees from 40 stores.

4. Wal-Mart: Issues
 Wage Exploitation:
 Workers in Pennsylvania were not compensated for
hours worked. In one instance, one employee claimed 8
to 12 unpaid hours a month, on average. Wal-Mart denied
the claim, which could include 150,000 Pennsylvania
workers.
 Exploitation of Workers
 Wal-Mart denied minimum wage, required overtime, and
punished union activity. It supposed that one Bangladesh
worker worked seven days a week from 7:45 AM to 10:00
PM. without a day off in six months.

5. Wal-Mart
 Solution:
 Workplace fairness should be improved. Fair treatment of
employees are essential. And fairness being one of the
important ethical attributes.
 Employee rights should be provided by the MNC’s. Every
employee has the legal rights in their workplace.
 Workplace issues like income gap, health issues, etc
should be eliminated.
 Avoid autocratic management style over the employees.
This only lead to 5000 pending law suits and legal issues.