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Nothing new here. Any buisness, big or small, would do the same thing.
1: How many other private companies do you know offers thier employee's scholarships?
2: Wal-Mart doesn't even have to offer any scholarships. There is no reason that they should have to offer it at all.
Considering that Wal-Mart doesn't have to pay an employee sick time at all I'd say that this is pretty generous. Nor does Wal-Mart have to pay vacation time. I do not get paid vacation time, nor do I get 2 weeks off for vacation in my first year. I do after 2 years but I still don't get paid for that time off. What's the difference between me and those that work at Wal-Mart?
Are you under the assumption that people have a right to get paid for thier sick days when they are not providing any service to the company? Or during vacation time? See thats the difference between my position and yours. You want them to get paid for them doing nothing. I want to get paid for doing something and have nor problem for not getting paid when I don't do something.
That 2 days is personal days. It does not include sick time or vacation time. And if its by the year then that would be 4 days, not 2.
If those people want to make that much per year then perhaps they should start thier own buisness?
Have I crossed over into the Twilight Zone? Every company I have ever worked for offered paid time off to full time employees. And the company I work for now offers assistance for higher education to its employees (not scholarships, it's a benefit extended to all full time employees), and long ago when I went to college, the company my mother worked for automatically gave me $1000 for enrolling, and it would have paid a percentage of the costs if she wanted to go.
The reason I'm saying Walmart should do these things, though, is not because I think all companies should offer sick pay and scholarships, it's because of the one part of my message that you failed to quote or respond to. The part about the average employee there making under $9 dollars per hour, which barely pays the rent for these people.
Regardless of what you want to claim, not all these people can go work somewhere else. They should extend the benefits I have at my job to their employees because they are barely getting by. I don't want them to "get paid for nothing." I want them to have opportunity and some manner of comfort if they are working every bit as hard as their other Americans yet making $8 dollars an hour at the largest retail corporation in the United States, a business who has seen their revenues increase every single year.