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Walmart to Pay $7.5M to Resolve California Hazardous Waste Charges

Walmart will pay $7.5 million to resolve charges that the largest U.S. retailer illegally disposed of hazardous and medical waste from its facilities into California municipal landfills. The settlement was announced on Tuesday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, following …

Insurers Paying $123M in Walmart Settlement of Shareholder Suits Over Handling of Opioids

Walmart said it has reached a proposed settlement pact related to three lawsuits filed by shareholders on behalf of the company over the handling of prescription opioids. According to the terms of the settlement that were disclosed in a regulatory …

Walmart Must Face Lawsuit Over Deceptive Pricing in Stores

Walmart must face a lawsuit claiming it often charges higher prices at the register than it posts on store shelves, costing consumers hundreds of millions of dollars a year, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Reversing a lower court …

Walmart, Energizer Must Face Lawsuits Over Battery Prices

Walmart WMT.N and Energizer ENR.N were ordered by a U.S. judge to face lawsuits by consumers and retailers accusing them of violating antitrust law by conspiring to raise prices of disposable batteries. In a decision on Friday, U.S. District Judge …

Snoop Dogg Sues Walmart Over ‘Diabolical’ Acts in Cereal Deal

Rap stars Snoop Dogg and Master P sued Walmart Inc. and Post Foods LLC, claiming the consumer giants conspired to crush their Snoop Cereal, intended as a model for other minority-owned brands. The musicians’ company Broadus Foods LLC accuses the …

Walmart Sued by US Agency over Test that Screened Out Disabled Workers

The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Wednesday that it had sued Walmart Inc. over allegations it fired hourly workers with disabilities who could not pass a computer-based test. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said that the …

Walmart Faces Second U.S. Lawsuit in Week Over Treatment of Workers With Disabilities

Walmart Inc. was sued on Thursday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency’s second lawsuit this week accusing the largest U.S. retailer of discrimination against workers with disabilities. The EEOC said Walmart illegally demoted Calvin Hagan for …

Massachusetts Settles With Walmart Over Workers’ Compensation Drug Prices

Retail pharmacy Walmart has agreed to pay $500,000 to Massachusetts after allegedly failing to follow the state’s prescription pricing procedures designed to keep costs down in the workers’ compensation insurance system, Attorney General Maura Healey announced. As a result of …

Walmart Gunman Was Harassing Employees, Worker Says in Suit

A Walmart Inc. employee who says she witnessed last week’s fatal shooting at a Virginia store filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company for allegedly continuing to employ the suspected gunman despite knowledge of past threats he’d made against …

Walmart Shooting Raises Need for Violence Prevention at Work

NEW YORK (AP) — The mass shooting Wednesday at a Walmart in Virginia was only the latest example of a workplace shooting perpetrated by an employee. But while many companies provide active shooter training, experts say there is much less …