Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs

Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and MICHAEL BARBARO
A memo to Wal-Mart's board proposes ways to limit health
care costs, including discouraging unhealthy job applicants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/business/26walmart.ready.html?th&emc=th

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I wonder where in the world they could have gotten this idea? Ed Kent

P.S. I strongly recommend Barbara Ehrenreich's explorations in person of the worlds both of blue collar (Nickel and Diming) and white collar (Bait and Switch) employment to any who plan to navigate through the shoals of contemporary corporate policies that seem to view us -- workers or consumers -- as a means to the bottom line of maximizing profits at the cost of any and all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Ehrenreich

P.P.S. I heard an engaging interview with the founder of the Wikipedia -- free on-line encyclopedia -- to whom anyone can contribute or correct -- that his next endeavor is an equivalent of free textbook construction, given that the publishers (Ruppert Murdock, of course, has also moved into that territory) have of late raised their prices by 400%. I recall my distress when one of mine which I had produced to fill a gap started selling (without my permission) at 2 and 1/2 times the original price!

In response to those (such as the former editor of the Encyclopedia Britanica) who criticize Wiki for inaccuracies, I discovered many years ago when I filled in on an emergency basis as the 'religion and philosophy' editor (then only a grad student myself) of an edition of the Columbia Encyclopedia that they all steal from each other -- errors and all. I only added one howler, myself, so far as I discovered along the way. But I discovered innumerable others. Don't trust ANY encyclopedia. One must use judgment as with web sources, and I would rather share ideas for free rather than profit from them. How can one sell a textbook to one's own students for $120.00 -- and all those revised editions to force sales of new ones!!!
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