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yabitsJun. 25, 2011 - 06:20AM JST. As American citizens, and my fellow Americans, employees who feel they have been wronged should have the right to assemble and press their case before an unbiased, neutral jury. That is the closest we will ever come to pure justice, and is very close to the core of the American ideal.
If Walmart did nothing about it then it is a problem. However, what you fail to mention is about changes Walmart has made and effort to treat women more equitably in the last 10 years since the case was filed. If you see the progress, Walmart undertands the civil rights have always been as much about social justice as individual justice.
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Molenir Jun. 25, 2011 - 12:22AM JST. Figuring they'd make the rich pay more. The unintended consequence of their actions however, was the collapse of several industries, and thousands of people out of work, as people quit buying those luxury items. Keep this example in mind when proposing taxes on luxury items. Too high a tax, and people stop paying for the items.
It's already been established that such a tax wouldn't raise any real money and that it would throw people out of work. It would also cause people to make behavior changes in reaction to the tax code rather than real economic efficiencies. People would lease rather than purchase as many people are already doing, endangering an industry and it would complicate an already complicated tax code. And you know what comes next after such a complication, a loopholes and further complications. This has been done before. It has turned out to be a poor idea every single time.
Posted in: Consumption tax burden will hit the poor
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smithinjapanJun. 24, 2011 - 05:24PM JST The 180 million I mentioned that would be wasted was merely for the bid. The amount that would be spent on construction (not REconstruction!) taxpayers will pay decades for.
This is a great idea. The Olympics might be good for Japan tourism industry. Actually, Tokyo can actually host Olympics spending alot less than 180 million. This can be very similar to L.A. Olympics that took place in '84 where they use existing indoor and outdoor sports facilities, such as stadiums, arenas, and use College and company dormitories for athletes accomadations. Tokyo has all the facilities build already, so very minimal modification is required. The return of the investment might be worthwhile.
Posted in: Japan's Olympic Committee backs Tokyo's 2020 bid
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yabitsJun. 24, 2011 - 07:26AM JST. I personally believe that hundreds of thousands of Wal-Mart female employees are not wrong, and that their claims could be backed up if they were allowed their day in court. Court is the place for evidence from both sides to be presented. Wal-Mart was obviously afraid that the evidence to back up their claims was substantial, and therefore chose to attack the case on the technicalities of the form of the class action -- not on the merits of the case itself.
What is right and wrong? Does it work like that in a court of law thinking you have a solid evidence? Never. You always have too much more gray area that top notch attorney will attack and dissect and wear you down. My point is U.S. goverment has increased protection of large corporations and they are not going to protect regular people the same way. Have a day in the court, but these people will be wasting alot of money and will go through incredible stress fighting the corporations, especially after this ruling.
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yabitsJun. 24, 2011 - 06:27AM JSTThere are serious issues here -- some of which Wal-Mart has benefited from to the tune of many millions of dollars. Just as the condition of African-Americans of past generations was determined by the rulings of white males who felt at the time that discrimination was also the natural order of things.
So has the community. Walmart has created a multitude of jobs. When a store opens, there is an immediate need for hundreds of jobs. There are also many more jobs created because of all the businesses that try to locate near the Walmart development. Simply put, thousand jobs being created in a community where Walmart locates itself.
Walmart will always be under attack from progressives that worry that anything that makes a profit must somehow be up to no good at the expense of defenseless humans who know nothing of the con that is being pulled on them. But it appears that the con is completely created by the progressive worrywarts who make up notions of slavery when they have no evidence to back up such claims.
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yabitsJun. 24, 2011 - 06:02AM JST. That is called discrimination based upon gender, and is against the law.
How could you say it's against the law when they are not enforcing it? What are they going to on class action suit? They tossed it out.
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yabits Jun. 24, 2011 - 01:15AM JST. It is nearly 100% certain that many thousands of women were wronged by Wal-Mart in their careers due to conditions set within the company's culture . Wal-Mart has a long track record of feigning that they don't know what is going on in their stores. (Refer to the case where they were found guilty of hiring illegal aliens to clean stores at night.)
Here you wine about how bad Wal-Mart is. Now I'm not saying that some people don't have serious issues at all here, but I do think that because you have such a huge unified group of people congregated in a single place, its easy for us to exaggerate our issues just for the sympathy and wanting Wal-Mart to acknowledge the problem. When in all honesty the issue probably isn't as bad as some make it out to be. This is what happens when businesses lose sight of their employees and their company policy, and focus on pushing out as many products as possible and pay little money for their employees . Wal-Mart is not a exception but a scape goat. Why don't talk about other 6,799 class action suits that were filed in 2010.
Your argument of Wal-Mart hiring illegal immigrants, but is this an isolated case? Hell no. Your so naive. This happens all the time. So what makes Wal-Mart special to you about illegals? What happens if hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants were not hired in agricultural fields in California, Arizona and Texas? Is there double standards for Feds not going after Agricultural companies? Tell me the difference.
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Japan companies will continue to have limitations and actually decrease in wages. This is why some of the skilled Japanese workers will take opportunities to work in foreign countries like China and other emerging countries for few years to get a better pay and benefits. If profit is made from overseas operations, some companies will reward their productive workers with additonal bonuses. Good way to save money for short term.
Posted in: No pay rises for a third of Japanese professionals in 2011
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yabitsJun. 22, 2011 - 04:52AM JST What the five conservative justices have said, essentially, is that there is no such thing as pervasive discrimination in the corporate workplace.
This was not voted by the men in the bench. The Court has majority of women, three women on the bench so these women understood very well what the class action suit meant in a personal level. In the retail world, being a female is a natural condition for receiving lower wages and fewer opportunities to advance to management. The weakest part of the class argument is the difficulty in translating corporate policies into local incident of discrimination at the store level and, without the opportunity to attack Walmart system wide, the women workers probably did not have a workable case at all.
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Here is the growing problem in U.S. and Walmart is not an exception. In 2010, U.S. workers filed nearly 6,800 suits, or some 700 cases more than the year before. Most of these were filed as collective or class actions. If you add this increase to the soaring number of worker discrimination complaints, then it’s clear why employment litigation is devouring the large share of corporate legal resources. Many workers seek to sue when they are caught in extensive layoffs, company closings, and the general job insecurity that accompanies troubled economic times. After all, the workers often have nothing to lose. Now some defense counsel complain that federal agencies are turning what used to be small, resolvable workplace matters into full-scale investigations and class actions. Even Congress has piled onto the companies’ burden. They make it illegal for employers to use genetic or family information in hiring, firing, or promotion decisions.
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lucabrasi Jun. 22, 2011 - 08:57AM JST. Walmart's not really won anything here. Now they're going to have to deal with thousands of individual cases instead of the one mass action. And they're not going to win every one of those cases.
Good luck. Wondering if you can sue Walmart? This unfortunately is not the case. Walmart has a team of the best lawyers in the country. They will refuse to settle your claim out-of-court and will make it as hard as possible. Winning is almost like a lottery. Almost impossible.
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yabitsJun. 22, 2011 - 06:39AM JST. It's rather amazing that, in going against 1.6 million Americans, four Supreme Court justices, a US Court of Appeals, and hundreds of perfectly valid class action cases, that five conservative justices are writing new law from the bench.
Time has changed. For the past 40 years, suit happy lawyers in the U.S. actually stagnated the growth for the industries. Many of the corporations did not take risks and were put in defensive position. They were more concerned with the exaggerated and bogus lawsuits that were costing alot of money and time. It's about time industries can have a upper hand and move the economy with minimal distractions.
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yabitsJun. 22, 2011 - 04:52AM JST. the fact that women employees of Wal-Mart make $1.25 per hour less than their male counterparts, on average.
This is so misleading since many of the jobs that are paid better requires substantial manual labor. This means you have to lift heavy weights of 70 pounds (35 kilos) or more on regular basis. The Walmart do a phenomenal volume of business, requiring intensive manual labor to stay stocked. However, most women could do no lifting over their head. The garden section requires extensive manual labor and/or pallet jack experience. It's a fast- paced environment that some of the work that men do requires strength that few women can do on daily basis. If women wants to be paid the same, let them start lifting heavy inventory.
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I applaud Vietnam for having courage to stand up to what is right. All other Pacific Rim nations are bowing to China. You need a strong stabilizing force in South Seas to counter China. Vietnam has alot of experience in wars and they are not a pushover. China should not take Vietnam lightly. They don't mind having war.
Posted in: Vietnamese protest against China amid rising tensions
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Article states: "But Kan was deeply unpopular even before the disasters as he struggled to find policies to boost the economy,"
Another J-media bias. The vast majority of Japanese do not support a change of Kan's leadership in the current situation. Don't blame Kan. He should stay. The Japan's political sniping and bickering had resumed to the uglist level. The current Japan goverment is so dysfuntional and spinning out of control and people are feeling the negatives. Instead of Kan resigning, most J-goverment representatives should look in the mirror and resign themselves. Are they really serving the people to their best of ability? The are only serving best for themselves. What a disgrace. The public is getting fed up with such a selfish agenda and they should vote and have a right to fire these lousy representatives who are creating such a disruptions during difficult times. The economy is invariably suffering from such political instability and it could not come at a worse time. Let people in Japan vote to see if they prefer Kan over somebody else. Last time I checked, Japan is a democracy or has changed to dictatorship of LDP? They have every right to vote and fire these unproductive selfish representatives.
Posted in: Kan being pushed to resign after budget bills are passed
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U.S. and NATO meddling in another sovereign nation's affairs and U.S. has a long history of deposing leaders of other nations in order to get natural resources, specifically oil. NATO forces are not interested in saving those being killed, it is just a noble motive to hide your agenda.
Posted in: NATO admits mistaken airstrike in Libya killed 9
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Alot of gun (weapons) problem in the U.S. are drug related. It is out of control and there is no way for law enforcement to decrease the number of crimes committed by guns. In the inner cities of high crime areas, many gangs are involved in turf war, and killings takes place. It is common for police to look the other way and they look the killings as one less problem. The jails are overcrowed and there are too many ex-convicts who are released early. They are strolling on the streets with nothing good do. The budget problem on all the states are starting to have more impact on the quality of life for hard working people in the U.S.
Posted in: 2 workers, 2 customers shot to death at New York pharmacy
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MoondogJun. 18, 2011 - 04:29PM JST. My comments are based on news reports. Yours are based on imagination and supposition of what might have happened.
My point is why did Weiner resigned hastily when he said he was going to stay? There might it been other evidence that was presented and if he didn't resign, the facts could've surfaced which would've maybe be a legal problem that could destroy him.
Posted in: U.S. congressman Weiner resigns in wake of sex photos scandal
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MoondogJun. 18, 2011 - 06:32AM JST. He did not "contact" a 17 year old girl. . She wrote to him first and he responded in a professional and proper manner as any representative would and should. What would have been wrong is if he ignored her message. That would have given her a bad impression of civic participation.
There is a doubt here. Where are your facts? With a long history of Weiner's behavior, how do you know he responded in a professional and proper manner? Only from what you read? Have you read the complete transcript between Weiner and the 17 years old? Or the girl maybe does not want to get involve deeper and her family attorney advise her against speaking out?
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What purpose is Weiner, who is 46 years old contacting a 17 years old teenage girl? If you had a teenage daughter being contacted by older man and a pervert that's 30 years older, would you consider as normal friendship? Good thing they found out before anything happened.
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