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Walmart to Pay $7.5M to Resolve California Hazardous Waste Charges

Oct 23 2024 // Walmart will pay $7.5 million to resolve charges that the largest U.S. retailer illegally disposed of hazardous and medical waste from its facilities into California municipal landfills.The settlement was announced on...

Walmart Reaches Settlement in Shareholder Lawsuits Over Handling of Opioids

Oct 21 2024 // Walmart said Friday it has reached a proposed settlement pact related to three lawsuits filed by shareholders on behalf of the company over the handling of prescription opioids.According to the terms of the settlement that...

UK Retailer Tesco Loses Legal Battle Over ‘Fire and Rehire’ of Staff

Sep 13 2024 // Tesco was not entitled to terminate some employees’ contracts and offer to rehire them on less favorable terms, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.Shopworkers’ union Usdaw took legal...

New York State Mandates Panic Buttons for Large Retailers

Sep 9 2024 // New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday signed a new law requiring retailers to boost safety protections for store workers, including requiring major chains to add panic buttons in all New York State locations.Unions...

CDK Begins Restoring Systems After Cyber Hack Hits Thousands of Retailers

Jun 24 2024 // Retail technology and software provider CDK Global has begun work to restore systems used by over 15,000 retail locations across North America, the company said in a statement on Sunday, adding that it expects the process...

Reuters: Walmart Opposes New York Plan to Add Panic Buttons to Stores

Jun 11 2024 // Retail giant Walmart says it is against putting panic buttons in stores – a move that the New York legislature wants to require under a new law aimed at keeping retail workers safe.On Friday, the New York State...

$7.8M Court Order Blocks Ghost Gun Retailer From Selling Certain Parts in New York

Mar 8 2024 // A federal judge on Wednesday permanently banned a Florida gun retailer from selling or delivering certain gun parts in New York that officials say can be used to assemble untraceable ghost guns and sold without background...

Medical Incident Likely Led to SUV Crashing Into Michigan Walmart, Authorities Say

Mar 4 2024 // CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A driver who crashed her sport-utility vehicle into a Walmart store in suburban Detroit was likely having a health incident at the time, authorities said Saturday.The woman and four other...

Louisiana Furniture Retailer Settles Race Discrimination Lawsuit for $105K

Feb 9 2024 // A furniture retailer and lessor based in Louisiana has agreed to pay a former employee $105,000 to settle a race discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency...

Walmart to Pay $60K over Sex Discrimination Case at Iowa Store

Jan 25 2024 // Walmart will pay $60,000 and provide other relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced.The EEOC charged in its suit that...

People Moves: Hagerty to Head US Retail Property at Everest Insurance; AIG Hires Navagamuwa as Chief Information Officer

Nov 20 2023 // Roshan Navagamuwa joins American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in December as executive vice president and chief information officer, effective January 1, 2024. AIG is headquartered in New York, N.Y.Navagamuwa joins AIG...

Walmart to Build $350M Milk Plant in Georgia to Expand Control of Dairy Supply

Oct 12 2023 // VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Walmart announced it will build a new $350 million milk processing plant in south Georgia, hiring nearly 400 people.Arkansas-based Walmart said the plant will provide milk to more than 750...

Gunman in Texas Walmart Shooting Ordered to Pay Restitution of $5 Million

Sep 27 2023 // AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 after ranting about Hispanics taking over the government and economy has agreed to pay more than $5 million to victims of the racist...

EEOC Files Lawsuit Against Walmart for Alleged Discrimination of Disabled Employees

Sep 15 2023 // Walmart, Inc. and Walmart Stores Arkansas, LLC, a multi­national retailer, violated federal law when it subjected a nationwide class of employees with disabilities to unlawful testing, the U.S. Equal Employment...

Walmart Sued by EEOC Over Test That Screened Out Disabled Workers

Sep 14 2023 // The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Wednesday that it had sued Walmart Inc over allegations it fired hourly workers with disabilities who could not pass a computer-based test.The Equal...

EEOC Sues Oklahoma Powersports Vehicle Retailer for Sex Discrimination

Sep 13 2023 // Vicars Powersports, a McAlester, Oklahoma retailer of ATVs, UTVs, dirt bikes, motorcycles and personal watercraft, violated federal law when it fired a female manager because she is a woman, the U.S. Equal Employment...

Drug Retailer Rite Aid Prepares to File for Bankruptcy Over Opioid Lawsuits: WSJ

Aug 28 2023 // Rite Aid Corp. is preparing to file for bankruptcy in coming weeks to address lawsuits the drugstore chain is facing over its alleged role in the sale of opioids, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people...

Dollar General Again Caught in OSHA’s Crosshairs; Retailer’s Fines Top $21M in 6 Years

Jul 19 2023 // Federal workplace safety inspectors at two Tampa, Florida-area Dollar General stores said they found the company again exposing employees to fire hazards and other unsafe conditions, continuing the long history of worker...

Man Behind 2021 Walmart Fires Along Gulf Coast Sentenced to 18 years

Jun 5 2023 // An Alabama federal judge has sentenced the man who admits being the leader of a scheme to set fires to Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast to 18 years in prison – double the recommended sentence.As part of a plea...

Walmart Paying California $500K in Settlement Over Sale of Brass Knuckles

May 25 2023 // Walmart will pay half a million dollars to settle allegations from California’s Department of Justice that it was selling brass knuckles on its website, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said.Brass knuckles are...