3. Labor Hours
Suppliers must provide workers with rest days and must ensure that working hours are consistent with the law and not excessive.
A. Labor Hours
1. Suppliers must comply with all local laws regarding labor hours, including limits on hours worked.
2. Working hours shall not exceed 60 hours per week, consisting of a maximum of 48 regular hours and 12 hours of overtime.
a. Maximum hours cannot be exceeded, even if allowed by local law.
b. Overtime work should be voluntary.
c. Suppliers shall not use coercive behavior to influence workers regarding overtime hours.
d. During each work shift, Suppliers shall provide workers with reasonable meal and rest breaks.
3. Suppliers shall develop and implement work-hour policies and procedures to ensure compliance with applicable work-hour law.
4. Written approval from any local government permitting overtime in excess of normally applicable laws is not acceptable to permit additional overtime hours.
5. Suppliers shall not allow workers to engage in any form of “work from home” program unless prior consent is obtained from Walmart.
B. Documentation of Labor Hours
1. Suppliers must ensure that all time worked, including time worked by those workers on a per-piece payment scheme, is fully documented by an accurate and reliable recording system.
a. Workers must be allowed to record their own working hours, including clocking in and clocking out.
b. This recording system shall document regular hours and overtime worked by each worker.
c. Suppliers must make an employee’s time record available for review by that worker.
C. Rest Days and Holidays
1. Suppliers must provide workers with rest days in compliance with applicable laws. If there are no applicable laws or regulations, the following minimum standards are required by Walmart.
a. Suppliers should limit the practice of workers voluntarily working on their rest days.
1. Workers should have a minimum of 1 scheduled rest day per 7 calendar days.
2. Workers may volunteer to work on their rest day, but should not be allowed to do so more than once every two weeks.
2. Suppliers must provide workers with holidays in compliance with applicable laws.
3. Suppliers shall provide workers with access to all applicable laws regarding worker leave.