Walmart is introducing a new dress code for its employees, but they’re not calling it a uniform… The retailer says customers are having a hard time figuring out who works at the store, so… employees have to wear black or khaki pants and a blue or white collared shirt… “Walmart employees are among the lowest paid in the entire country right now,” [Judith Conti of the National Employment Law Project] says. “And Walmart is asking them to buy new clothes to wear at work…”

…“There’s a legal difference between a uniform and a dress code,” says [Reuel Schiller, a professor at UC Hastings Law School]. If the cost of the uniform will actually pull your wages below minimum wage for the week that you bought it, then under federal law that’s illegal.

Schiller said Walmart skirts the issue—and passes on costs—by going with a dress code.

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