Warehouse workers say abuses are systemic

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46597603/ns/business-us_business/

As a warehouse worker in the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the nation’s biggest distribution hub for consumer goods, Jorge Soto handles shipments for retail giant Walmart every day.

But Soto, who works for a subcontractor, claims that along with routine jobs such as unloading trucks, he also has been ordered to perform an illegal task: falsifying employees’ time sheets to cheat them out of getting the minimum wage.


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Jorge Soto


As Soto explained in an interview: “They wanted to wash their hands of it through me,” adding that workers sometimes received as little as $3 or $4 an hour.