---- Blick auf einem Walmart Supermarkt in Nanchang City, East China Provinz Jiangxi, 14. März 2014. Ein Chinesisches Labor union und vier ehemalige Manageme
--FILE--View of a Walmart supermarket in Nanchang city, east Chinas Jiangxi Province, 14 March 2014. A Chinese labor union and four former employees have filed suits against Walmart after an arbitration committee rejected their cases demanding better compensation following the closure of a store in central Hunan Province. The Wuling District peoples court in Changde City, where the Walmart store is located, accepted their suit on Wednesday (9 July 2014). A total of 69 workers had challenged the Changde Walmart stores offer of compensation or alternative employment. A manager of the store announced on March 5 that the underperforming store would be closed on March 19. The workers were offered either to move to stores in other cities or end labor agreements and receive compensation. The closest Walmart store to Changde is in Yiyang City, 100 kilometers away, which led most of the workers to reject the employment offer. Some workers have claimed the store did not inform workers or the trade union 30 days in advance as required by law and did not have any communication with workers before announcing the closure. Walmart closed the Changde store as part of plans to restructure in China. It said in October last year it planned to shut about nine percent of stores in China through 2016 while opening 110 new stores and distribution centers and creating 19, 000 jobs in the country as part of efforts to revitalize its business.
