Subscribe to A Cry for HelpPeople can disagree on the various economic merits of Walmartism, but it seems pretty clear to me that no one* benefits from this sort of behavior. Even daddy Republicans would agree that you don't punish someone by giving them special privileges.Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer agreed to pay $135,540 to settle federal charges that it violated child labor laws in Connecticut, Arkansas and New Hampshire. As part of the agreement, revealed yesterday after it was secretly signed in January, the Labor Department agreed "to give Wal-Mart 15 days' notice before the Labor Department investigates any other 'wage and hour' accusations, like failure to pay minimum wage or overtime."
*excluding Wal-mart stockholders and anyone else with a big enough campaign contribution budget and a desire to skirt the law, of course.