Walmart Associate Handbook 2017 2018
Walmart is a place of opportunity. Here, you can go as far as your hard work and talent will take you. Our associates are building better lives for their families, and we’re proud to be a part of their success stories. We’re by offering competitive pay, advanced training through, career development through our Pathways training program and, most of all, a chance to move up. No matter what goals our associates set for themselves, we want to help them grow professionally and personally.
To that end, we offer a variety of. From Academy training to promotions, success is within reach. Walmart Academies is an immersive training program that is tied to a working supercenter, allowing associates to receive both classroom and sales floor training in advanced retail skills and soft skills like leadership, communications and change management. As of spring 2018, our nearly 200 Academies nationwide have trained more than 500,000 associates. Pathways is a comprehensive training program that will create clear career paths from entry-level positions to jobs with more responsibility and higher pay. In Walmart’s fiscal year 2018, we promoted more than 230,000 people to higher-paying jobs with increased responsibility.
2016 Walmart Associate Handbook
More than 75% of our salaried store management teams started as hourly associates. Store managers, on average, earn $170,000 annually and manage and help mentor 300 associates. Full- and part-time associates are eligible for quarterly bonuses based on store performance. In Walmart’s fiscal year 2018, associates earned more than $625 million in bonuses. Graduate to the next step with education benefits.
In partnership with, associates can earn in business management or supply chain management for just $1 per day. Walmart covers remaining costs and other required fees. Associates can receive college credit for paid training at Walmart Academies. Walmart offers education benefits for college credit, GED, language training and professional development.
Culture is the foundation of everything we do at Walmart. It’s how we deliver superior customer service, create a great frontline work environment and improve performance in order to achieve our common purpose of saving people money so they can live better. The Walmart culture is one of high performance, and it is how we live out our values. Each of our four values – Service to the Customer, Respect for the Individual, Strive for Excellence and Act with Integrity – has a set of three corresponding behaviors that, when practiced daily by every associate, can help us deliver business results and create a culture of inclusion. Walmart has a long history of providing comprehensive health care and benefits to our associates, and we’re proud of the quality plans we offer, which are among the best in the retail industry.
We believe that when associates have stability in areas like health care, paid time off and retirement planning, they’re better able to bring their best selves to work. Health care and insurance options made affordable. All eligible associates – both full- and part-time – have affordable options that include no lifetime maximum and eligible preventive care covered at 100%. We offer medical plans starting at around $26 per pay period, as well as dental and vision plans. Coverage for domestic partners is available. Our covers select spine and heart procedures, knee and hip replacement surgeries, organ and tissue transplants, and breast, lung and colorectal cancers – all at no cost to associates. Associates have free access to nurse care managers and health care advisors.
Health reimbursement plans provide $300 to $1,000 and our health savings account plan gives up to a $700 match to help pay for eligible network or non-network medical expenses. Associates can take advantage of Resources for Living, a free confidential counseling and health information service. Additional options include company-paid life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, critical illness insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance and business travel accident insurance. Save for retirement, save with exclusive discounts.
Associates can contribute to their 401(k) starting on their first day with the company. Download lagu rossa. Walmart provides up to a 6% match after one year on the job. Associates can participate in an associate stock purchase plan with company match. Our associate discount card offers a 10% discount on fresh fruits, vegetables and regularly priced general merchandise at Walmart stores. The Associate Discount Center provides exclusive discounts on travel, cell phone services, entertainment and other goods and services not available in Walmart stores.
Paid time off empowers associates to decide how they use their leave by streamlining paid vacation, sick time, personal time and holiday time into one category. Making time for families with maternal and parental leave Families take many forms. However our associates grow theirs, we’re here to help. Our maternity, parental and adoption benefits are available to all salaried and full-time hourly associates who have worked at Walmart for at least 12 months. HOW IT WORKS. Maternity: The enhanced maternity benefit supports birth moms with up to 10 weeks of protected paid time away from work. Birth mothers can take up to 10 weeks of protected paid maternity leave.
They’ll receive 100% of their pay, based on their average weekly wages. They can use the new parental benefit (see below) for an additional six weeks, for a total of 16 weeks of protected paid leave for birth mothers. Parental: The parental benefit supports associates who become a parent through a birth, adoption or foster-care placement, with up to six weeks of protected paid time away from work. It's available to associates in all states, including California, Oregon and other paid parental leave states. The parental benefit is for new legal parents, guardians and foster parents only.
New parents can take up to six weeks of protected paid parental leave. The associate’s time away needs to be continuous, meaning they take it all at once. The associate can use their parental benefit at any point in the 12 months following the date they became a new parent through a birth, adoption or foster-care placement. Salaried associates may also be able to use the two-week family care pay program to cover the time they care for a spouse or dependent who has an eligible medical condition. Associates receive 100% of their pay, based on their average weekly wages. Adoption: This benefit pays associates back, up to $5,000, for expenses related to adopting a new family member. There’s an annual maximum of $10,000 and a lifetime maximum of $20,000 per associate.
Qualified expenses include, but are not limited to: Application fees, agency and placement fees, legal fees and court costs Home suitability studies Immigration, immunization and translation fees Transportation, meals and lodging Parent, child and family adoption counseling.