I've been working at Kroger for 7 months. When I started, I gave them my availability (I work a second job, and take classes), and everything was correct on the greatpeople.me e-schedule whatever. Sometime in July, someone deleted my original availability for one of the days I can only work mornings, so I've had to either come in earlier on that day to make up hours or just call in. I have had a request to update my availability in the system since July, but it was never approved. Now with school starting, I'm having more scheduling conflicts because mgmt won't approve my new request to accommodate my school schedule. Of course, I've talked to the store manager many times about this, but it's still the same thing. Should I go to the union with this? It's really annoying being scheduled when I'm not available, especially since I didn't change my original availability.
If YOU didn't change it, you can really snag Kroger for forging your approval. If they were not able to schedule you when you were available, they should have at least told you about it and offered you a different shift/position/transfer, or even offer to "let you go" with dignity. Changing an employee's availability without their consent is unethical.
The store manager is the one who does the scheduling, kind of a control freak.
Hold up, that's potentially an/the issue here. Mgmt doesn't just randomly decide they want to write the schedule. That's the dept head's job, contractually. Your head just let mgmt push them out of that for no reason.
