Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is spending $1 billion to make changes to how it pays and trains U.S. hourly workers as the embattled retailer tries to reshape the image that its stores offer dead-end jobs.

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If you want to know why so few women hold executive positions at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., here’s the answer the Walton Institute gives out to management trainees: Women aren’t as aggressive at seeking promotions as men.

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The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether to keep alive the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history, a case that claims Wal-Mart pays women less than men and promotes women less frequently. The justices stepped into a ...

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, agreed to pay $40 million to settle a class action lawsuit in a Massachusetts pay dispute, averting a trial. The group lawsuit, filed by hourly workers, claimed Wal-Mart’s managers required them to work ...

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Nearly three years after an incident that started with a dispute in a Wal-Mart checkout line, Heather Ellis reached a plea agreement Friday evening after jurors had been considering her case for about two and a half hours.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has developed plans to manage holiday crowds shopping at its 3,500 U.S. stores after an employee died in a “Black Friday” trampling a year ago. Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, consulted with sports and entertainment safety experts ...

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The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that a man who was injured working for a company contracted to Wal-Mart can proceed with a lawsuit in circuit court. Michael McCracken was employed with Interstate Brands Corp., a company that ...

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The employment status of a man who was injured while delivering bread to a southwest Missouri Wal-Mart was a point of contention Wednesday before the Missouri Supreme Court. Michael McCracken was employed with Interstate Brands Corp., a company that had ...

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Steven Bonifer was shopping with his daughter at a St. Louis-area Wal-Mart when stacks of boxes tipped over and fell on him. That seemingly simple personal injury began a cascade of legal problems for his family and his attorney. Two years later, Bonifer died under suspicious circumstances, leaving an estate in disarray and his settlement negotiations ongoing.

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The last of many lawsuits regarding a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter in High Ridge was disposed of earlier this year and work on the project is progressing. THF Realty of Overland is building a 44-acre commercial development at High Ridge Blvd. ...

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Wal-Mart has sued a pharmaceutical management system company for its role in a settlement that Wal-Mart reached with a family whose son was born with spina bifida. The current suit, filed Tuesday in St. Louis County Circuit Court, alleges that ...

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