Scheduling snafus landed Walmart and Patagonia in legal hot water.
Two former Philadelphia-area Walmart employees filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday claiming the retail giant violated the city’s Fair Workweek ordinance by infringing on their rights to a predictable and regular schedule.
Donald Washington and Symone Wilder alleged that Walmart failed to provide them with work schedules 10-to-14 days in advance or give them “predictability pay” when their schedules were changed within that window. Washington and Wilder, who both were hourly employees at the store, say that the company hadn’t given them the ordinance requirement of nine hours off between shifts. They also claim Walmart would not give existing workers the first opportunity to work additional shifts before hiring new employees to fill them.
The complaint noted that each instance of a violation could result in statutory damages ranging from $25 to $1,000 per pay period.
“We take the requirements of the Philadelphia Fair Workweek ordinance seriously and have policies in place to comply with it,” a Walmart spokesperson told Sourcing Journal. “We will respond to the lawsuit as appropriate once we are served with the complaint.”
Philadelphia’s Fair Workweek law went into effect on April 1, 2020. Under the law, new employees in the retail, service and hospitality sectors are supposed to receive “good faith estimates” of their upcoming schedule, which the suit alleges Walmart failed to deliver. The law initially...
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