I keep seeing this pop up every so often, and even more frequently heading into summer, so here goes;
If you are a National Guardsmen or Reservist, Walmart provides 30 days of paid military LOA every year.
In order to use this you must:
Submit your military LOA through Sedgwick for your drill weekends, AT days, mobilizations, or anytime you’re on orders.
Use your drill schedule or orders as the substantiating document.
Sedgwick will approve and then you get paid. It won’t show up on One @ Work, but it will be there on your check.
Once 30 days have been used up, it will be unpaid LOA.
If your orders last 6 months or more because you get mobilized or similar, you actually have to call Sedgwick to file that absence.
Do your part too and provide supervisors with the schedule and remind them when training is coming up.
For you people going active duty, yes, you can file for military LOA, and your position will be protected for up to 5 years. So you can do your 3 or 4 year active contract, get out, and still have a job at Walmart if you need it. I’ve seen it happen, and it actually never occurred to me that one could do that.
It’s a benefit that Walmart provides and you only hurt yourself by not using it, same goes for any other benefit! Take that parental leave, take the maternity leave, do the college program, max out the 401k match, and run that discount card on everything.