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Showing Original Post only (View all)I smell a big Wal-mart Rat! [View all]
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/opinion/wal-mart-offers-jobs-to-veterans.html?_r=0Wal-Mart Reaches Out to Veterans
Published: January 15, 2013
Wal-Mart, the nations largest private employer, says it plans to offer jobs to any recent veterans who want one and hire more than 100,000 of them in the next five years. Other companies should follow Wal-Marts lead in this welcome effort to help reduce high unemployment among those who served in recent wars.
They are not doing this from the bottom of their hearts. They are up to no good and using Vets to do it.
We all know that Wal-mart stinks to work for. I think yeah, they will hire them, but they will not let them work for full time. They will not get benefits. And god help them that try to go to school!
I smell a rat and somebody from the VA better look into this!
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Work Opportunity Tax Credit ... available to every US company from the Labor Department.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#5
In the story that I linked in th post, their is another reason we can add.
Lady Freedom Returns
Jan 2013
#7
I believe, after looking through quickly, the Congress increased the Vet categories to make up for
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#12
I don't know how much more transparent one can get...it's public knowledge...it goes through the
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#14
so 100,000 vets = 9.6 billion in tax credits (which can be resold, btw). what a deal.
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#18
Such a rat even those who obsess over the word (for DIFFERENT reasons) smell it!
alp227
Jan 2013
#16
WOTC...Money for companies to hire people from the "entitlement programs"...what's bad about that?
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#9
So, just curious, you'd rather they be on the public dole? Truth is they've been doing it for years
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#11
$9.6 billion in tax breaks says they're already on the public dole. i'd rather just have an honest
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#19
You can't sell tax credits. You can earn them and save them for up to 20 years.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#20
I am speaking directly to the WOTC credits which are based on employing people and accrue over a
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#24
I've been out of the biz a couple of years, so it's interesting. Do you know how they do it?
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#26
Some companies like hiring veterans because they follow orders and put up with just about anything
Brickbat
Jan 2013
#27
Eh, doesn't your knee get tired from all of the jerking it has to do...
OneMoreDemocrat
Jan 2013
#28
Wal=mart is going to use those retuning Vet and then leave them with nothing.
Lady Freedom Returns
Jan 2013
#32
Ironically, W-M donates to our foodbank and to our outreach to homeless and needy vets
pinboy3niner
Jan 2013
#31