Walmart Case Study

Walmart provides benefits to their employees regarding healthcare, education and financial benefits. The healthcare plan includes access to dental, vision and other procedures including counseling for post-accident cases. The medical plan covers both domestic partners and married couples. According to Wohl ( 2016), the company implemented the strategy to mitigate the loss of employees to other businesses that cover domestic relationships. Domestic relationships eligible for the benefits include legally married individuals, spouses with no documented separation, and two people with the same sex or opposite sex that have shared the same household and wish to settle together. The condition only applies to relationships existent for over 12 months and likely to continue for more years. However, if the spouse of a Walmart worker gets benefits

The change in work description or a promotion becomes a change in status. The occurrence of development or relocation to a new job on the same level alters the employee’s benefits. For instance, promotion to a higher position involves greater benefits for the employee. The employee receives better benefits as compared to the previous work. Glass ceilings prevent the employee especially women from moving to higher positions in the company. The worker thus stays in the same position for an extended period hence gains no additional benefits from the enterprise. The rules on General electric benefits stipulate that the cost of the benefits should be sufficient to include a new status change. If the employee’s earnings are inadequate to cover the rates of health benefits for a new spouse, then the cancellation of the change occurs. The similar barrier includes glass walls that inhibit the change of job description of a worker. Therefore, glass windows and glass ceilings prevent the employee from acquiring better benefit plans to cover them and