Wal-Mart PR Department Should Be On Suicide Watch

By BlackJack

Breaking news this evening: Wal-Mart has dropped it's lawsuit to recover $470,000 from Jim & Debbie Shank. So it would seem Wal-mart found it's heart? Not so fast...

The U.S. Justice Department announced that it is suing Wal-Mart on behalf of Sean Thornton, a former Air Force airman who claims that the retailer didn't give him his job back after he got out of the military - which is illegal not to mention unpatriotic.

In a press release the Justice Department states "The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court in Orlando, Fla., alleges that Wal-Mart violated USERRA (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994) by failing and refusing to reinstate Thornton to his civilian employment position as a cashier at a Wal-Mart store in Orange City, Fla., after he was discharged by the Air Force,"

"Subject to certain limitations, USERRA requires that individuals who leave their jobs to serve in the United States military be reemployed by their civilian employers in the same position that they would have held had they not left to serve in the military."

Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Grace Chung Becker said in the statement "No person should be disadvantaged in the workplace for serving our country in the military".

Wal-Mart was unable to comment on the allegations. Or unwilling