Wal Mart has really done it this time.

My wife, a 7 year Wal Mart employee, is getting terminated from her job because a "person of color" filed a false claim with Wal Mart that she discriminated against him because he was "of color".

My wife works at the return desk at a Wal Mart here in WA. A guy returned an item (with receipt)..no problem. He also wanted to "check-out" a full cart-load of items. People were waiting to return stuff, so my wife asked him, since he was way over the 10 item check-out limit for the return desk, to go and check out at a normal cashier.

The guy says "Sure, no problem". But he comes back the next day and files a formal complaint with the manager saying because he was "of color" my wife refused to check him out. Total load of crap. Heck, 80% of her good friends are "of color", and she is the most color blind person I ever met.

The claim is/was totally false. Her co-worker working with her gave a statement that totally backs up my wifes version that she (my wife) was simply doing her job, asking the guy to take the 30+ items to the regular cashiers desk because her dept. had a 10 item limit, and people were waiting in-line to return stuff.

Wal Mart, rather than deal with the facts of the situation, chose to settle with the man for quite a bit of $. They (Wal Mart) did little or no fact collection and rather than take any chance for bad press, paid the guy off.

She (my wife) is trying to get copies of all the related paperwork, but Wal Mart says they are confidential and can't be released; They (Wal Mart) and are now covering all their collective arses. Basically, they paid off the guy because they didn't want any bad press, and now are firing her because they had to pay money on a false claim which they (Wal mart) didn't have the juevos to stand up and argue against in support of a good employee who did NOTHING wrong in any way.

This will damage my wifes work record, forever, and make it tough for her to get any job. She did nothing wrong, and is now left "swinging" by Wal Mart.

I need to contact some kind of attorney. No experience with this stuff, but I WILL NOT let this just go away, but am smart enough not to do anything stupid to jeopardize anything. Wal Mart needs to be held accountable, in court, for this.

Suggestions? Mike

p.s. I'll never walk in another Wal Mart again. I hope good people will begin to learn that this is a bad company, who takes our $ and buys all their stuff they sell overseas. Very little in any Wal Mart is "Made in the U.S.A. and they treat their employees worse than garbage.