In a different thread someone asked if there were any lawyers in the group that could take a look at how Walmart effectively stole the personal and sick time we had earned.
Here are my thoughts.
it is indeed morally wrong what they did with our hours we earned. But I am fairly certain it was not illegal. I believe they realized it was immoral and maybe illegal to take the hours completely away so they devised a plan to not take them away but keep them out of reach basically forever.
Many of us have had those 192 sick hours for more than 20 years. Walmart saw we were sitting on them in order to earn more personal time. For those who dont know if you saved sick time til it maxed out then from that point every two sick hours you would have earned was given to you as one hour of personal time. And most of us were sitting on the personal time too.
Here is one of the things that galled home office. Lets say I had earned those sick hours way back at ten dollars an hour but am now making 20 dollars per hour that makes those hours worth twice the money than when first earned. Now spread that over thousands of associates and it gets into the millions of gained worth for all those hours.
Out of pure spite for those of us diligent enough to save those hours Walmart locked them away like Cinderella's step mom keeping her invitation to the party away from her,
Pure greed and spite did us out of what we had rightfully earned. No top leader in this company can be personally respected until they give us our dance invitations !