what is the problem in this case? what are the key causes of the problem? two recommendations on how to fix the problem

son Walmart Adds Sick-Leave Pay. Problem Solved? Retallgiant Walmart has recently made several significant changes to its human resources policies. Although some of these changes appear to be in employees tovor, most notably an improved sick leave policy, critics have pointed out that other Walmart policies including wages and sentem rules are unfar to workers. This activity is important because it highlights the link between these policies and employee motivation The goal of this exercise is to get you to consider the al balance between overly restrictive and generous HR pokies to improve employee motivation Read about recent Walmart HR pocy changes. Then using the three-step problem-solving anproach answer the questions allow Early in 2019, the giant retaler Walmart instituted a sweeping revision of some core human resource poncies affecting its 11 million hourly workers in the United States. The move was undertaken in response to the fact that an increasing number of states and che now require employers to offer paid sick leave As of February 2019, Walmarts stove and warehouse workers can earn one hou of paid leave for every 30 hours worked up to 48 hours total. The time can be used for any purpose without infringing on vacation time. Since the new policy consolidates and unities a number of earlier rules, the company expects it will simplify administration and compliance, as well as reduce absenteeism Management so hopes the policy change wil help continue a decine in tumover that started the year before, when I says, an improved wage scale, relaxed dress codes, and more generous parental leave helped reduce lumover by more than 10 percent At the same time, however the company has tightened up some of its other employment policies, Fortance workers can now be fired for accumulating only five attendance violations within months, whereas the limit was nine in the past. Short of firing, attendance has new financial consequences to Athough workers with perfect attendance can earn higher quarterly bonuses, they currently make up fewer than a third of Walmart's hourly employees. Those who miss more than a of shit will now see the bonuses cut by as much as har before the policy revamp, employee bonuses were based solely on store performance? "Walmart is responding to our call for change with a new policy. But what they are giving with one hand, they are taking with the other and Shashauna Philips, a Waimat employee in South Carolina and a leader in OUR Walmart, a worker group Philips also worries that one result of offering a france Incentive for perfect attendance is that employees will come to work sick Others share her concem that Walmart has a way to go before it can claim to be doing everything possible to support and retain its workers Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders, for example, issued is not a poor company and urging to raises starting pay to $15 an a statement saying that Waimat's new Sklave policy was a small step forward but not enough noting that Walmart hour (as a public outcry and legislation introduced by Sanders recently forced Amazon to a Walmart currently starts its houny workers at 11 an hour, up from only $9 as recently as 2017 Writing in The H. Congressional representative Ro Khanna of California and Marc Perrone, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union also urged Walmart to increase its bask wage, saying that Congress should take action again, to compel Walmart and other uge employers to pay the workers enough to feed the families and avoid forcing the "taxpayer-funded safety net to make up the interence Amazon faced a choice between raising wages and paying the government for the social safety net benefits its workers claimed it opted to ranse wages Khanna and Perrone feel Walmart should make the same decon Walmart's sales are growing steadily and are expected to near $530 bilion for fiscal 2019.6 Apply the 3-Step Problem-solving Approach Step 1 Define the problem in this case Step 2 Identity the key causes of this problem Step 3 Make your top two recommendations for foding the problem at Walmart hoc verples