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The issue of low income workers going without health insurance from their employer is much, much bigger than the 'big box' stores. John Gunyou quoted research indicating that in Minnesota less than half of the workforce has insurance through the job. (someone help me here -- I didn't write this stat. down and it isn't on his web site that I can find -- what was the % he gave us?)
Craig Brooks
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Wal-Mart fights benefits disclosure in Minnesota
Chris Serres, Star Tribune
June 2, 2005 WALMART0602
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. does not want Minnesotans to know how many of its workers
in this state receive public health care assistance.
The world's largest retailer has denounced as a public-relations ploy
legislation -- which some state legislators have dubbed the "anti-Wal-Mart
bill" -- that would create a public list of companies whose workers are
enrolled in MinnesotaCare and other government-funded health care programs.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based retail giant recently sent two executives to St.
Paul to lobby against the bill, which the Legislature may vote on in special
session this month. Wal-Mart also sent a two-page letter describing its health
care benefits to every legislator in the state.
[snip]
A Wisconsin state representative has introduced a bill that would force big-box
retailers to reimburse the state for providing the health care needs of their
under-paid and under-insured employees.
The bill would place a graduated 1 percent to 2 percent tax on gross receipts on
any store that exceeds $20 million in sales in a taxable year, and that
allocates less than 10 percent of its payroll to health insurance for its
employees. The bill applies only if the retailer fails to pay full-time,
entry-level employees at least $22,000 a year, or about $10.58 per hour; or if
more than 25 percent of the retailer's workforce is part-time. The revenue
would go to the state's Medical Assistance trust fund.
Cont...
http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5435075.html
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