{"id":2490,"date":"2005-10-26T20:47:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-26T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2005\/10\/26\/if-unwell-please-dont-apply\/"},"modified":"2005-10-26T20:47:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-26T20:47:11","slug":"if-unwell-please-dont-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"if-unwell-please-dont-apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Walmart&#8217;s memos were laws, they&#8217;d be struck down for being overly broad.  In the most recent one, the board has a series of suggestions geared at <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/26\/business\/26walmart.ready.html%22\">curtailing healthcare spending<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart.<br \/>\nIn the memorandum, M. Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart&#8217;s executive vice president for benefits, also recommends reducing 401(k) contributions and wooing younger, and presumably healthier, workers by offering education benefits. The memo voices concern that workers with seven years&#8217; seniority earn more than workers with one year&#8217;s seniority, but are no more productive.<br \/>\nTo discourage unhealthy job applicants, Ms. Chambers suggests that Wal-Mart arrange for &quot;all jobs to include some physical activity (e.g., all cashiers do some cart-gathering).&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder where this leaves the disABLED since by &quot;healthier&quot; it can be presumed that many of us might be excluded.  We don&#8217;t look healthy even though we are.  It&#8217;s the wheelchair you see.  Sometimes those legs don&#8217;t work, and well, the rest is history.<br \/>\nI see trouble for Walmart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Walmart&#8217;s memos were laws, they&#8217;d be struck down for being overly broad. In the most recent one, the board has a series of suggestions geared at curtailing healthcare spending: Among the recommendations are hiring more part-time workers and discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart. In the memorandum, M. Susan Chambers, Wal-Mart&#8217;s executive vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}