Judge increases award to Wal-Mart workers

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA - Wal-Mart workers in Pennsylvania who previously won a $78.5 million class-action award for working off the clock will receive an additional $62.3 million in damages, a judge ruled Wednesday.

About 125,000 people will receive an additional $500 because of a delay in compensation.

"The law in its majesty applies equally to highly paid executives and minimum wage clerks," Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Mark Bernstein wrote.

"Just as highly paid executives' promised equity interests or put options or percentage of sale proceeds are protected fringe benefits and wage supplements, so too the monetary equivalents of 'paid break' time cashiers and other employees were prohibited from taking are protected fringe benefits and wage supplements," Bernstein wrote.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21115050/

[rfranklin]

1. Yes, and it's time for working people to make a fist and crush the...

highly paid executives into submission.

[Sherman A1]

2. Great News

Thanks for the link!