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HOS DISCUSSIONS * USA: Walt Mart truckers live in their trucks acting as security guards
* California - Modestan among plaintiffs as Fresno law firm accuses Wal-Mart of cheating its truck drivers
Modesto,CAL,USA -The Fresno Bee, by PABLO LOPEZ -October 18, 2014: ... “What Wal-Mart is doing is basically stealing,” said Fresno attorney Nicholas “Butch” Wagner, who won a federal court ruling last month that allows his firm to represent more than 800 Wal-Mart drivers – past and present – throughout California... The lawsuit accuses Wal-Mart of violating a number of California labor laws, including failing to pay its drivers minimum wage and failing to give them meal and rest breaks. Wal-Mart contends in court papers that its truck drivers are well-paid and even get paid when they sleep in their cabs... In addition, Wal-Mart said it pays its drivers $42 to remain in the cab during the required 10-hour layover period... Wagner says Wal-Mart is being disingenuous. “Forty-two dollars for 10 hours isn’t even minimum wage,” he said, arguing that Wal-Mart offers this bonus so truckers can live in their trucks and act as security guards so no one breaks into them...
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