US retail giant Walmart is to bolster its healthcare offering to staff with effect from 1 November, with a commitment to provide up to $20,000 in financial support for prospective parents pursuing in vitro fertilisation. The retail group had not been known for the quality of its health coverage until now, but efforts to attract and retain talent are necessary against the current recruitment backdrop in the sector.
More than 30 clinics. Having previously announced that it would extend its healthcare policy to cover abortion for staff “when there is a health risk to the mother, rape or incest, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage or lack of fetal viability”, in light of the US Supreme Court’s decision in June to abolish nationwide right to abortion (see articles n°13044 and n°13114), Walmart is now extending the policy to cover in vitro fertilisation (IVF). The group is following the example of its e-commerce co
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