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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Federal judge: Wal-Mart cannot be held liable under United States law for labor conditions at some of its overseas suppliers

Federal judge: Wal-Mart cannot be held liable under United States law for labor conditions at some of its overseas suppliers
Source: NY Times
A complaint filed last year in Los Angeles by the International Labor Rights Fund contended that employees of Wal-Mart suppliers in China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Swaziland and Nicaragua were forced to work overtime without pay and in some cases were fired because they tried to organize unions. The group sought to represent hundreds of thousands of employees of Wal-Mart’s overseas suppliers.

 



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