NEW YORK — A federal judge has granted class-action status to Wal-Mart investors suing the world’s largest retailer over allegations that it covered up a bribery scheme in Mexico to help its business there. The allegations included that Wal-Mart’s Mexican ...

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ST. LOUIS – For many people, the decision to seek legal advice is a mysterious and daunting endeavor that is not made on the spur of the moment, if at all. A new legal practice in southwestern Missouri is trying ...

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The ribbon has been cut, first dirt shoveled and site work construction is underway for expansion of the BayTowne Wal-Mart into a Supercenter. The DiMarco Group, project developer and contractor, has pulled its equipment into place and earth is being ...

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NEW YORK — A bevy of big-name businesses including Apple, Gap and Levi Strauss are publicly speaking out against religious-objections legislation in states such as Indiana and Arkansas. The world’s largest retailer and America’s largest private employer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., ...

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WASHINGTON — For roughly 500,000 Wal-Mart workers set to receive pay raises, something is better than nothing. But it still won’t be enough for many of them to afford housing and transportation and feed and raise children without government aid, ...

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HAMBURG — Wal-Mart has fired an employee of a western New York store after he posted derogatory comments about Muslim customers on Facebook. The firing follows a request by the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations for ...

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Temporary workers at Wal-Mart have filed a new class action against the retail giant. The lawsuit, filed in Illinois federal court, alleges that the company violated wage and overtime laws by requiring temporary employees to show up early for work, ...

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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Wal-Mart Stores Inc. urged retailers to reject a proposed $6 billion settlement that Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc. and major banks have agreed to pay retailers for alleged fee fixing. The settlement, reached earlier this month, had been ...

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In an effort to cut costs and maintain the right level of staffing during busy hours, Wal-Mart has removed greeters from its 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. shift. Over the past six months, the company has been reassigning these people to ...

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The first of what promises to be many smaller-sized job discrimination class actions against Wal-Mart in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring a single massive class has been filed in California. Attorneys for the plaintiffs in Dukes v. Wal-Mart — using the same named plaintiffs ...

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GREECE — After a nearly four-year delay, Walmart is building a supercenter in an upstate New York suburb. A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for next Thursday in Greece.

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision barring certification of what would have been the largest job discrimination class action in history has spurred a debate among legal experts about the role of class actions not only as a tool for seeking monetary relief, but also as an instrument of systematic change.

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