Coworker Hell Justice: Former Walmart Employee Awarded 1.49 Million For Mistreatment From Store Manager

From Huff Po: As Walmart workers across the country participate in the company’s first-ever retail worker strike, one former employee’s dispute with the big box store comes to a close.

Meredith Boucher, a former Walmart assistant manager in Canada, was awarded $1.49 million after suing for mistreatment in the workplace, the Calgary Herald reported. Boucher said she was the victim of verbal abuse for six months by her store manager in Winsor, Ontario three years ago.

“I didn’t eat. I was losing weight. I was throwing up blood. I was sick to my stomach all the time,” Boucher told the Windsor Star.

Boucher said her manager referred to her as “a gong show” and “stupid” and said she saw the store manager commit abuses to other female employees as well, the Windsor Star reported.

A lawyer for Walmart said the court's decision was "perverse" and that they would be seeking appeal, according to the Calgary Herald.

In California, five women are suing Walmart for gender discrimination. The women take an alternate plan of action after the Supreme Court dismissed a class action lawsuit against Walmart by 1.5 million female employees -- the largest sex discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history.

Walmart has also been accused of religious discrimination. This June, the world's largest private employer agreed to pay $70,000 to a Mormon employee after the store threatened to fire him for observing the Sabbath.

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Comments

[Tatiana_Silver]

I am from the city that this happened in.
I am so pissed that this happened. I feel so ugh there are no words on how disgusted I feel. I know the lady in question, and she is the sweetest, nicest person you would ever know. And for something like this to happen to her, there are no words.

[Queer Geek]

Add this to another thing to hate about Wal-Farts.

[The Last Archimedean]

Remind me again why the government hasn't passed and enforced strict labor rules banning corporations wrom screwing over employees... because we need such rules badly. This is a case in point why such laws are necessary.

[Nocturnesthesia]

Unfortunately you just need to follow the money to find out why some corporations get away with this shit consistently.

[Svantus, the Steelport Psychopath (formerly the Wage Slave Avenger)]

As a former employee, I can tell you this: They don't give a fuck and have all the swagger to show for it. We had managers not only screwing over employees, but, well, you know the rest. One decent floor manager walked in on the store manager getting a mouthhug from one of the HR ladies. He ended up working at some other store out in bfe. I left right before the hammer finally fell and they started cutting everyone back. They had, up to that point, started making us be flexible rather than having "flexible hours". That was three years ago. I still have friends there that say it gets worse every day. Problem is that there isn't much to shoot for in my "city". You work at Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Publix, Winn-Dixie, or a restaurant. Good luck even getting in at the restaurants. Most of the time, they don't even need seasonal peeps.

[Skittles]

@ The Last Archimedean
I'm fairly certain the billions of dollars spent in lobbying every year are reason one. Reason two has to do with virtually every politician being an ivy league educated member of the upper class. Why on earth people expect them to represent anyone other than the rich I do not kknow.