Wisconsin drivers for a Walmart grocery delivery program will receive over $600,000 as part of a settlement the retail giant agreed to with multiple states and a federal agency.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice announced the settlement on Feb. 27, saying it came following allegations that Walmart misrepresented payments to drivers, including withholding portions of tips and changing pay after orders were accepted.
Wisconsin was one of 11 states, along with the Federal Trade Commission, that sued Walmart. In total, the settlement is for $100 million.
The settlement includes other stipulations. Walmart must give annual drivers’ pay reports to the Federal Trade Commission for 10 years, and the company cannot modify orders following a driver’s acceptance or misrepresent the earnings from a delivery.
“People deserve to get honest information about what they’ll be paid,” said Attorney General Josh Kaul in the news release.
Walmart’s program is called Spark Driver, and it pays people to deliver groceries and other goods to customers. The DOJ’s news release said the program has nearly one million drivers, who have made 272 million deliveries.
David Clarey is a public safety reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at dclarey@gannett.com.
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