News, Walmart Still Hasn't Paid Its $7,000 Fine For 2008 Black Friday Death

[JD59]

WASHINGTON -- Five years after a worker was killed in a crush of shoppers on Black Friday, Walmart still hasn't paid the $7,000 it was fined for allegedly failing to protect employees on the biggest shopping day of the year.

Sitting on appeal with a review commission, the case of Jdimytai Damour's death highlights how corporations can choose to fend off modest penalties over workplace dangers for years on end, according to occupational health experts.

Walmart Still Hasn't Paid Its $7,000 Fine For 2008 Black Friday Death

[flyonpa]

If its still on appeal, Why should/would they pay it?

As for fighting it/appealing a low dollar fine, They are worried about setting a precedent for paying it, in effect saying we errors, come after us again with a million other cases.

[Malloric]

Bingo.

Wal-Mart isn't spending tens of thousands of dollars appealing this because it doesn't want to pay a $7,000 fine. It's spending the money appealing it because there are consequences to it being found guilty, most directly in civil liability (assuming they haven't already settled the case).

[tinytrump]

yep they cant lose- and they will take this to the end of the world... too much as stake- look at ms Paula Deen... great one day- adios the next.