If you were a New York Times reporter writing a piece about whether the company’s management practices can accurately be called “compassionate,” you have a lot of recent examples to weigh. Last week, Walmart agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The case concerns Luis Quiñones, an employee in South Carolina who has a prosthetic leg. According to the EEOC, the company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by revoking Quiñones’s right to use one of the store’s electric carts to perform some of his job duties, which he had been doing for seven months. Instead of finding reasonable accommodation for Quiñones, the company placed him on an indefinite unpaid leave. The big-box retailer has also agreed to offer Quiñones a position at one of its stores in the state.

The discrimination against Quiñones is just one of many alleged labor violations by the anti-worker megacorporation. Late last month, Region 10 of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) amended a consolidated complaint against a Walmart in Central, South Carolina, alleging that the company violated the National Labor Relations Act. The complaint alleges that Walmart maintained an unlawful policy limiting what a worker can record or photograph while in the workplace, instructed workers not to raise their safety concerns regarding its COVID mask policy in front of other employees, issued “warnings” and sent a worker home for engaging in protected concerted activities with other workers by photographing safety concerns related to Walmart’s COVID mask policy, and refused to remove “occurrences” (attendance points) from a worker’s file because said worker filed charges with the NLRB.

That’s just one of the company’s forty-seven hundred stores in the United States, an empire that makes it the country’s largest private employer, with a US workforce of 1.6 million. Elsewhere, Region 20 of the NLRB has issued a complaint against the company after alleged union busting at a Eureka, California, store. That complaint alleges that Walmart interrogated workers about their union activities in the break room, threatened workers if they continued to place pro-union flyers in the break room, and selectively and disparately removed the pro-union flyers from the break room table and tore them up in the presence of employees.