In our department we have 5 part time people that get 40+ hours each week that they wont give any full time spots to and a full timer that works 24 hours and cherry picks his schedule. They even put him on the schedule an extra day to "fool" the union guy so when he checks it shows 32 hours to keep his full time status. More krogers BS.
8 weeks there? It's 12 here. But yeah, if you average over 35 hours a week for that sustained period of time it will automatically make you full time. They can't deny you.
seriously, everything I've read here is not true in the Southwest divison. I've asked about being full time if i work 40 hours a week straight for a lot of weeks but my store manager has told me that, that used to be a rule but not anymore. Or maybe they're just lying to me.
seriously, everything I've read here is not true in the Southwest divison. I've asked about being full time if i work 40 hours a week straight for a lot of weeks but my store manager has told me that, that used to be a rule but not anymore. Or maybe they're just lying to me.
This is true... It used to be that "full time" was classified as a 40 hour work week. It also used to be that a part time employee who worked 40+ "scheduled" hours a week for 6 consecutative months was automatically given full time status.
This is no longer the case... The Department of Labor no longer makes any distinction between full and part time employment. These distinctions are made by the employeer and/or union negitiated contracts. In most UFCW contracts, they require only a minimum number of positions the employeer must maintain as full time... Here in UFCW 8, it's 30%. It is at the employeers descrition who may be given full time regardless of union seniority, years of service or hours worked.
Once given full time status, officially registered by the company and union, you are given but not guarenteed 40 hours a week. I say given but not guarenteed because the company has the right to petition the union to reduce full time hours from 40 to 32 in any given week to compensate for lost sales, poor economy or any other situation outside the empoyeers control which would otherwise result in employee layoffs.
At my store, I just happened to get 'full-time' status for working 12 consecutive weeks with 38 hours or more. Now they can't deny my atleast my 38 hours a week.
