As America's second largest corporation, largest private employer, and the largest retailer, Wal-Mart is constantly making the headlines for its wages, benefits, and working conditions. More often than not, these headlines are not the kind Wal-Mart is encouraging. Wal-Mart receives 5,000 lawsuits a year solely because of employee conditions (Timothy). In an interview with ‘Dan,' a manager of Wal-Mart, stated that he has seen people forced to do heavy-duty work despite being pregnant or having a medical condition that interferes with the task (Figueroa). The overworked employees are only the beginning of a Wal-Mart epidemic.
Wal-Mart is repeatedly criticized for the low wages its workers receive. The average amount Wal-Mart pays its employees is $8.81, well below what they deserve for the workload the staff members are putting in. The storefront employees are not the only ones who deserve better pay, but the ones who are working to make the merchandise that is on the shelves also deserve improved wages. In the sweatshops of Bangladesh, the minimum wage for overburden workers is just $37 a month (Osterndorf). For the conditions they work through, the abuse they endure from their superiors, and the 12-hour days, they deserve a fair living wage.…show more content… If it is that expensive, it is even worth having insurance in the first place? 26,000 Wal-Mart employees are now using Obamacare because Wal-Mart has cut its coverage (Osterndorf). Maybe due to problems obtaining insurance, Wal-Mart employees have been found to have more health issues than the typical American. Wal-Mart has recently created a cheaper health insurance that was supposed to be easier for its employees to afford. The new plan is cheaper, but the only difference is less care. Many believe it is still not worth the high rates to have the insurance Wal-Mart