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:: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 ::

In-House Audit Says Wal-Mart Violated Labor Laws New York Times
An internal audit now under court seal warned top executives at Wal-Mart Stores three years ago that employee records at 128 stores pointed to extensive violations of child-labor laws and state regulations requiring time for breaks and meals.

The audit of one week's time-clock records for roughly 25,000 employees found 1,371 instances in which minors apparently worked too late at night, worked during school hours or worked too many hours in a day. It also found 60,767 apparent instances of workers not taking breaks, and 15,705 apparent instances of employees working through meal times.

Wal-Mart's False Plays at Ignorance by Stacy Mitchell
Published by Institute for Local Self-Reliance
In the Wal-Mart economy, where an inexhaustible supply of cheap consumer goods has become more important than family wages for American workers, it should come as little surprise that a company which is known for its' ability to track the sale of products down to the penny across a far-flung empire, would plead ignorance when accused of violating labor laws.

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