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If you register for your Walmart.com account or make a purchase from Walmart.com on or after 11pm PST November 28, 2017, you will, upon registration or at the time of purchase, agree to our new Privacy Policy below.
If you registered for your Walmart.com account or made a purchase from walmart.com before November 28, 2017, our previous Privacy Policy will apply to you until you make a new purchase from Walmart.com.
If you have not registered for a Walmart.com account and only shop with us in store, this policy will apply to any transactions in store on or after 11pm PST November 28, 2017.
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What changed in the Privacy Policy?
Updates to our Privacy Policy include: Beyond compare 4 license.
- We updated our terms related to sharing of information between Walmart and our co-branded partners
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Animal Welfare - Swine Assurance Position
At Walmart and Sam’s Club we are committed to providing our customers with safe, affordable, and sustainable food as well as promoting the humane treatment of animals. We seek continuous improvement in animal welfare practices within our fresh pork supply chain. As a result, in addition to our current programs, Walmart and Sam’s Club are launching a new tracking and audit program for our fresh pork supply. Every fresh pork supplier will be required to meet the new program requirements.
Walmart and Sam’s Club will continue to only accept fresh pork from animals raised under the standards of the National Pork Board’s (NPB’s) Pork Quality Assurance (PQA) Plus Program. Specific new tracking and audit requirements include:
- Each fresh pork supplier must have on-farm video monitoring for sow farms and will be subject to unannounced animal welfare video audits by an accredited and independent third-party.
- Implementation of video monitoring on sow farms must be complete on 20% of production supplied to Walmart and Sam’s Club on sow farms by the end of 2014, with another 20% of production added each year for the next 4 years. This will result in 100% coverage by the end of 2018.
- Until all farms have video monitoring, an accredited and independent third-party will conduct annual on-site audits on farms without the technology. Farms will be given 72 hours notice. - Each fresh pork supplier must implement an internal annual animal welfare audit for all farms that includes a grading system and corrective action tracking. This must occur at all farms.
- These audits must be done by PQA Plus-certified personnel and must include annual audits and probable abuse audits.
- These audits will be done with 72 hours notice.
- The supplier must retain records on the audit results, including the grade, corrective actions and PQA Plus certification number. - Each supplier must make the documentation and results of the tracking and audit program available to Walmart as requested, but not less than twice annually.
- Walmart and Sam’s Club will work with suppliers to determine an acceptable level of required performance after a benchmark is determined based on the supplier information. - Each supplier must not only ensure that key management personnel are PQA Plus Certified but also require each production site to ensure that key management personnel that handle pigs are PQA Plus Certified.
- Each site must participate in the NPB third-party verification pool.
In addition, Walmart and Sam’s Club will make the following NPB PQA Plus program requirements mandatory:
The Manager's Guide to Bereavement Leave, Pay, and a Sample Policy
A bereavement leave policy is the description of the company’s practices in allowing paid and unpaid employee time off from work when a family member, relative, or friend dies. While an organization will want to make every effort to work with employees on an individual basis during these tough emotional times, you will want to have a basic policy in place so that employees know what they can expect from you in terms of bereavement leave time off and bereavement pay.
As an employer dedicated to treating employees fairly, consistently, and caringly, you will want to have your starting point for bereavement pay and bereavement leave time off documented in your employee handbook. This documentation answers the employee's initial questions and tells him or her what they can expect in bereavement assistance from their employer.
This also reassures the employee that the employer cares about the needs of employees who are experiencing bereavement. This is a relief for employees who want the employer to care during their time of grief.
Why Is Bereavement Leave Time Granted?
Bereavement leave time is granted for making funeral arrangements, attending the funeral and burial, paying respects to the family at a wake or visitation, dealing with the deceased’s possessions and will, and any ancillary matters that employees must address when a loved one dies.
Companies provide paid bereavement time of approximately three days for the death of an immediate family member. Companies typically provide paid bereavement leave time of one day off for other relatives and friends.
Most organizations are willing to provide employees with additional unpaid days, when necessary so that the employee can deal with the affairs of the deceased family member. When an employee is the main person who is responsible for conducting the deceased's business, the employee may need several weeks of unpaid time to wrap up his loved one's affairs.
This becomes even more complex if the relative lived in a distant state or country. If the individual's personal affairs are extensive, and especially in cases where the deceased failed to leave a will, dealing with the deceased's affairs is quite complex and time-consuming. Employees need help from their employer to navigate these unwanted, unchartered waters.
How Can Employers Best Work With Employees Who Experience Bereavement?
Employers need to work with employees on a case by case basis about offering unpaid time off or the utilization of vacation time, PTO, or personal days for bereavement events. The employee will appreciate how you treat him or her during their time of bereavement in the future.
And, your other employees are watching how you treat the bereaved employee. They are forming opinions about you as an employer but also learning about what they can expect when they experience a death in their family.
If you are committed to using your employees as recruiters and brand ambassadors for your organization, this is one of the significant ways that you have an impact on how employees view you as an organization. (Others include the generosity of your benefits package, how employees are respected and treated, the degree of empowerment and autonomous decision making and many more.)
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Following is a sample bereavement policy that contains provisions regularly found in company bereavement policies.
Bereavement Policy Sample
Bereavement Leave for an Immediate Family Member:
When a death occurs in an employee's immediate family, all regular full-time employees may take up to three (3) days off with pay to attend the funeral or make funeral arrangements. The pay for time off will be prorated for a part-time employee if the funeral occurs on a scheduled workday. The Company may, in unusual circumstances, require verification of the need for the bereavement leave.
Immediate Family Defined for Bereavement Leave:
Immediate family members are defined as an employee's spouse, parents, stepparents, sisters, brothers, children, stepchildren, grandparents, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, or grandchild.
Non-Family Member Funeral Leave:
All regular, full-time employees may take up to one (1) day off with pay to attend the funeral of a close, non-family member. This time off will be considered and granted by the employee's manager on a case-by-case basis.
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The pay for time off will be prorated for a part-time employee if the funeral occurs on a scheduled workday. The supervisor should confirm that the time is recorded accurately on the time cards. The Company may require verification of the need for the leave.
Additional Bereavement Time Off:
The Company understands the deep impact that death can have on an individual or a family, therefore additional non-paid time off may be granted. The employee may make arrangements with his or her manager for an additional four unpaid days off in the instance of the death of an immediate family member.
Additional unpaid time off may also be granted depending on circumstances such as distance, the individual's responsibility for the funeral arrangements, and the employee's responsibility for taking care of the estate of the deceased.
Individual employee circumstances may be discussed with the employee's manager and Human Resources to determine whether additional considerations are needed. It is the company's intention to support employees during their times of grief and bereavement.
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Store Managers’ Manuals & Training Materials
A Manager’s Toolbox to Remaining Union-Free (53 pp pdf, 1997).
Sam’s Club Supervisor’s Handbook (14 pp pdf, not dated) is an abbreviated version of the “Manager’s Toolbox” for Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club subsidiaries.
Labor Relations and You at Wal-Mart Distribution Center #6022 (44pp pdf, 1991). This is similar to the company-wide manual on unions, but customized for a distribution center.
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Most employees never read their employee handbooks even though such handbooks contain important information that sets the framework for, and terms of, their employment relationships. Employee handbooks often communicate valuable information, such as the employer’s mission, policies, and procedures, as well as employees’ benefits and rights under state and federal employment laws. In some circumstances, an employee handbook may be a contract, creating enforceable rights for employees.
In Braun v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., two Wal-Mart employees sued Wal-Mart on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated employees for breach of contract, unjust enrichment, and violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), alleging violations of their employee handbook. Wal-Mart’s employee handbook stated that all employees must be paid for meal breaks, and that hourly employees who work between three and six hours per shift must be paid for one short break, and hourly employees who work more than six hours per shift must be paid for two short breaks. Under Pennsylvania law, a handbook is enforceable against an employer if a reasonable person in the employee’s position would interpret its provisions as evidencing the employer’s intent to supplant the at-will rule and be bound legally by its representations in the handbook. The employees claimed that, contrary to their employee handbook, Wal-Mart frequently denied them their meal and short breaks and, when they did receive those breaks, they were not paid for that time. Although federal law does not require employers to provide meal and short breaks, the FLSA requires employers that do offer meal and short breaks to pay their employees for interrupted meal breaks, i.e., meal periods in which employees perform work, and for all short breaks.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of Pennsylvania’s Superior Court that Wal-Mart’s employee handbook constituted a contract and that Wal-Mart had, among other violations, breached that contract. The court ordered Wal-Mart to pay approximately $188 million dollars to the class, which was composed of approximately 187,000 Wal-Mart employees who worked in Pennsylvania between 1998 and 2006. On March 13, 2015, Wal-Mart filed a petition for certiorari with United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) to review whether the Pennsylvania courts incorrectly subjected Wal-Mart to a “Trial by Formula” to produce class-wide “common” evidence on key elements of the plaintiffs’ claims. SCOTUS has not yet decided whether to hear this appeal.
Employers must follow their own employee handbooks. Wal-Mart’s meal and short break policy had the same force and effect as a contract. Employees should read their employee handbooks to make sure their employers are following their policies. If you believe your employer has violated your rights, contractual or otherwise, please contact The Harman Firm, LLP.