{"id":10936,"date":"2012-05-31T10:28:52","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/05\/update-2-wal-mart-urges-worker-integrity-amid-bribery-probe\/"},"modified":"2012-05-31T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T08:28:52","slug":"update-2-wal-mart-urges-worker-integrity-amid-bribery-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-wal-mart-urges-worker-integrity-amid-bribery-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Wal-Mart urges worker integrity amid bribery probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Wal-Mart international executives cheer on employees<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Talk of Mexico bribery scandal largely avoided<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Wal-Mart shares end day 0.4 pct lower at $65.44<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jessica Wohl<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., May 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Top executives of<br \/>\nWal-Mart Stores Inc did not directly mention a Mexican<br \/>\nbribery scandal at an employee pep rally on Wednesday, but asked<br \/>\ntheir international workers to focus on &#8220;integrity&#8221; as a core<br \/>\nvalue.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest retailer has been under fire from<br \/>\nshareholders and activists after the New York Times reported in<br \/>\nApril that management at Wal-Mart de Mexico, or<br \/>\nWalmex, allegedly orchestrated bribes of $24 million to help it<br \/>\ngrow quickly last decade and that Wal-Mart&#8217;s top brass tried to<br \/>\ncover it up.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Mike Duke was among the senior Wal-Mart<br \/>\nexecutives allegedly aware of the situation, according to the<br \/>\nTimes. He is now a main target of disgruntled shareholders, who<br \/>\nwould like to see him and others removed from the board.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wal-Mart has repeatedly said that it would not comment on<br \/>\nthe specific allegations until investigations are completed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Executives on Wednesday sidestepped specific mention of the<br \/>\nallegations in Mexico, the company&#8217;s first and largest<br \/>\ninternational market. They referenced integrity as one of the<br \/>\ncore values at a company where employees cannot even accept a<br \/>\nfree cup of coffee from a vendor. They also underscored the<br \/>\nimportance of complying with local laws and told employees to<br \/>\nreport any possible wrongdoing.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Wal-Mart international executives cheer on employees * Talk of Mexico bribery scandal largely avoided * Wal-Mart shares end day 0.4 pct lower at $65.44 By Jessica Wohl FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., May 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Top executives of Wal-Mart Stores Inc did not directly mention a Mexican bribery scandal at an employee pep rally on Wednesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}