A row of timecards gradually turning into a pink slip
Both Amazon and Walmart use a points-based attendance system.
  • Walmart and Amazon are facing legal trouble over firing workers after absences.
  • A California law firm has filed seven wrongful-termination suits against the companies.
  • Lawyers said most of the suits were borne from the attendance systems that Walmart and Amazon used.

The corporate mega-companies Walmart and Amazon are facing an onslaught of legal trouble over the points-based attendance systems they use to track worker absences and, in turn, fire employees, lawyers who have filed lawsuits against the retail titans say.