{"id":29077,"date":"2012-05-04T05:51:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T09:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29077"},"modified":"2012-05-04T05:51:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T09:51:11","slug":"wal-mart-owes-employees-back-wages-for-denying-overtime-comp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/05\/04\/wal-mart-owes-employees-back-wages-for-denying-overtime-comp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Owes Employees Back Wages For Denying Overtime Comp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vbdb5df6355fec84d0b8ae6a63a1df45d84739306&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=vbdb5df6355fec84d0b8ae6a63a1df45d84739306&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Labor Department said that Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) owed employees $4.8 million in back wages for denying overtime payments to thousands of employees working as vision center managers and asset-protection coordinators.Though the monetary amount is pocket change for the company, it represents another embarrassing mishap at a firm whose public image is already blemished.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/05\/04\/1_1muqilmc_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/05\/04\/1_1muqilmc_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department said that Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) owed employees $4.8 million in back wages for denying overtime payments to thousands of employees working as vision center managers and asset-protection coordinators.Though the monetary amount is pocket change for the company, it represents another embarrassing mishap at a firm whose public image is already blemished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}