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Walmart To Pay Former Employee $1.49 Million For Mistreatment

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HUFFINGTONPOST.COM - As Walmart workers across the country participate in the company's first-ever retail worker strike, one former employee's dispute with the big box store comes to a close.

Meredith Boucher, a former Walmart assistant manager in Canada, was awarded $1.49 million after suing for mistreatment in the workplace, the Calgary Herald reported. Boucher said she was the victim of verbal abuse for six months by her store manager in Winsor, Ontario three years ago. She was awarded more than she had originally sued for, according to the Calgary Herald.

"I didn't eat. I was losing weight. I was throwing up blood. I was sick to my stomach all the time," Boucher told the Windsor Star. click here to read more