Walmart Pays Employees Christmas Bonuses

In a beautiful display of Christmas giving, Walmart gave 116,000 California Walmart employees bonuses of what averages out to around $1,500 a per employee. You see, Walmart isn't as bad of a place to work as some would make it seem.

"An Oakland jury Thursday awarded $172 million to 116,000 current and former employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the first of dozens of wage and hour class-action lawsuits targeting the giant retailer to go to trial. The world's largest retailer was ordered to pay $57 million in general damages and $115 million in punitive damages to employees for violating a 2001 state law that requires employers to provide 30-minute unpaid lunch breaks to employees who work at least six hours in a shift. California law requires companies to pay workers a full hour's wages for every missed lunch. Lawyers for Wal-Mart had argued that workers did not demand their penalty wages on a timely basis".

Timely? Just in time for the holidays!