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Check out the story below. A court finds that Wal-Mart forced its employees to toil when they were off the clock.
This is among the most basic of labor rules — workers get paid for the work they do.
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Jury finds Wal-Mart violated labor laws
Pennsylvania jury found the discount retailer violated labor laws by forcing employees to work during off hours and breaks.
October 13 2006: 11:28 AM EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) — A Pennsylvania jury found that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. the world’s biggest retailer, violated Pennsylvania labor laws by forcing employees to work “off the clock” or during rest breaks, the discounter and a court official said.

A state jury in Philadelphia on Thursday found in the favor of Michelle Braun and Dolores Hummel, formerly employed by Wal-Mart.

They sued the retailer on behalf of current and former hourly employees, charging that it violated labor laws by having employees work during rest breaks or when they were “off the clock.”

But the jury found in Wal-Mart’s favor on the charge that it denied workers meal breaks.

The jury has not yet ruled on damages in the case, and a Wal-Mart spokesman said it would not be appropriate to comment before the jury reached a decision on damages.

The decision comes after a California jury in December ruled that Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, pay $172 million in damages and compensation to about 116,000 current and former employees for denying meal breaks.

Plaintiffs in the 2001 California lawsuit claimed that Wal-Mart had failed to pay hourly employees for missed or interrupted meal breaks.

Wal-Mart has said it took steps to ensure meal breaks for its employees, including deploying technology to shut down cash registers if cashiers do not respond to alerts for breaks.

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