Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Wal-Mart Canada: Fittingly, it has been Wal-Mart Stores Inc., for decades the most cited example of soulless capitalism in its treatment of workers, which has signaled an epochal change, according to The Toronto Star. Wal-Mart is the world biggest employer, with a global payroll of about 2.2 million people. Few things are more revolting than having to listen to employer assertions that People are our most important asset, knowing that many of those same employees are subjected to near-Dickensian working conditions. Wal-Mart Canada is the biggest retailer in this country, and Canada largest employer of traditionally low-paid retail workers. And Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon says still more increases in Wal-Mart minimum pay are likely. In April, Wal-Mart said it will increase its minimum hourly pay for its 1.3 million U.S. workers – and not modestly, but to $11, or close to 25 per cent higher than the U.S. federal minimum wage. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.