• Walmart Handbook For Employees

Walmart Handbook For Employees

'I should have been able to leave to go to the ER and not worry about losing my job,' one employee (not pictured) said. Reuters Walmart, the single largest employer in America with 2.3 million employees worldwide, has come under fire for its attendance policy. Based on conversations with Walmart employees and results of a survey of more than 1,000 current and former Walmart employees, worker advocacy group A Better Balance claiming the retailer has punished its workers for taking sick days and time off to care for loved ones and violated a number of worker-protection laws including the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). 'Walmart should fully comply with the law so that no one is illegally punished for a disability-related absence or for taking care of themselves or a loved one with a serious medical condition,' Dina Bakst, founder and president of A Better Balance, the advocacy group that prepared the report,. Among the complaints A Better Balance received, employees have said they're afraid to call out sick, they've been penalized and even fired after taking sick time, and they face financial ruin as a result. Randy Hargrove, a spokesperson for Walmart, issued a statement to Business Insider in response to the report: 'Like any company, we have an attendance policy that helps ensure our customers are being taken care of and that our associates are protected from regularly having to cover other's work duties.