The CEO of US supermarket giantWal-Mart has urged the country's Congress to consider raising the minimum wage.
The company, which has drawn criticism for its wage policy, is the US's largest non-union private sector employer.
According to a report on CNN, Lee Scott told Wal-Mart directors and executives in a speech on Monday that he believes 'it is time for Congress to take a look at the minimum wage and other legislation that can help working families'.
He was quoted as saying that the US minimum wage of $5.15 an hour had not been raised in nearly a decade and was out of date with the times.
'We can see first-hand at Wal-Mart how many of our customers are struggling to get by,' said Scott. Wal-Mart maintains that it pays above the current $5.15 an hour minimum wage to its employees.
