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The closures could last up to six months and affect roughly 2,200 workers in Texas, California, Oklahoma, and Florida, CNN Money reports.Wal-Mart employees say they were completely blindsided by the news, having been notified only a couple hours before the stores closed at 7 p.m. Monday."Everybody just panicked and started crying," Venanzi Luna, a manager at a store in Pico Rivera, California, told CNN Money. All workers will receive paid leave for two months. After that, full-time workers could become eligible for severance, according to CNN Money. But part-time workers will be on their own. Local officials and employees have questioned Wal-Mart's reasoning for the closures.According to ABC News, "no plumbing permits have been pulled in any of the five cities where the stores were suddenly closed for at least six months."A city official in Pico Rivera confirmed to CBS Los Angeles that the city has not received any permit requests for building repairs.
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Topic: Wal-Mart suddenly closed 5 stores and laid off thousands of workers and no one knows why (Read 412 times)
