Does @Walmart provide good healthcare benefits? Find out at @ChangeWalmart: (Short answer: no) #WalmartStrikers
Here are some bullet points from this article:
- Walmart’s health care plans stopped covering any employee working less than 24 hours per week in 2012;
- States are forced to cover hundreds of thousands of Walmart employees under their state’s Medicaid and state-based low-income health care plans. In fact, of the 23 states making reports disclosing employers of recipients receiving state assistance, 21 report that Wal-Mart has the largest number of employees on the public roll; and
- According to a Wal-Mart Manager (Gretchen Adams in 2003), the company encourages employees to enroll in public assistance.
And there’s more damming evidence. Take a moment and read the full article.