As part of the case, first filed in 2001, an expert statistician witness analyzed Wal-Mart’s paper and electronic payroll records from 1995 to 2005 and documented more than 1 million instances when Bay State employees were denied meal breaks.
State law requires employers to give at least a 30-minute meal break to employees who work more than six hours in a given day. Violations of the law, which is up to the state attorney general to enforce, are punishable by a fine of $300 to $600 per occurrence.
‘If you add the objective numbers that we have, the state can claim at a minimum $600 million in fines just from Wal-Mart,’ Bonsignore said. ‘Given the financial dire straits that the commonwealth faces, it’s incomprehensible to me that the attorney general is sitting on its hands.’
If money is to be paid, it should be to the employees, not to the bureaucracy.
After the $200 million legal fee.
If Bonsignore ever made millions in legal fees, he hasn’t invested it in his office.
Your very own link says he nets $500K per year, so 4 years = millions.
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To the employees Walmart took advantage of. Just another example of your democratic state government knowing better than you what to do with your money. You might waste it on food and heat, among other essentials. Socialism is sounding better all the time.