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A 7 page paper discussing the ethical aspects of Wal-Mart's use of illegal immigrants. In 2003, federal agents arrested more than 300 illegal immigrant workers as they finished their shifts cleaning 60 Wal-Mart stores in 21 states. Wal-Mart avoided any problems of implementation by simply bringing all cleaning activities back in-house. It cannot hope to control the actions of other companies, but like its own customers, it can refuse to do business with them. Whatever savings the company gained from using contractors was more than offset by its single $11 million fine. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: CC6_KSwmrtEthIlleg.rtf
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agents arrested more than 300 illegal immigrant workers as they finished their shifts cleaning 60 Wal-Mart stores in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia (Feds: Wal-Mart Knew About Illegals, 2003). The purpose here is to assess the
ethical aspects of Wal-Marts use of illegal workers. Issue Clarification The 300 illegal workers were not direct employees of Wal-Mart. Rather, they
worked for cleaning companies contracted to clean Wal-Mart stores. "The workers were arrested as they finished their night shifts at Wal-Mart stores in 21 states" (Feds: Wal-Mart Knew About
Illegals, 2003). Individual managers collect all required information on individuals hired for working at local stores. Potential employees are required to show
a Social Security card and some type of proof of identity; the company has a "paper trail" for its 1.1 million employees. Even though store managers are required to
ensure that they can support the legality of all of the workers within any local store, federal "Agents also hauled away several boxes of documents from an executives office at
Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville" (Feds: Wal-Mart Knew About Illegals, 2003). Pomeroy (2006) reports on several situations that put companies human resources (HR) departments
in a compromising position. "An underlying theme in all these accounts is a management culture that fostered ethical malfeasance--or at the very least allowed it to happen--even when the
organization espoused a code of ethics" (p. 48). In one case, an HR manager was instructed by the corporate attorney to lodge all of his complaints through the attorney.
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