When Kroger hired me a month ago , they said you'll get between 12 and 24 hours a week. I've been putting in 36 to 38 hour weeks and last week I even put in 40. Now I'm not complaining I do enjoy the 200$ a week checks if you we're going to do this why not just make me full time ?
They are just tossing you some extra hours until they can hire/transfer some more people.
It's temporary, trust me.
Probably not, actually. Been with the company 5 years and I was told the same thing at hire. Only been scheduled under 30 hours once or twice since then. Normally 35-38.
A lot of people disagree with me on this, but retail in particular would LOVE to transition to 100% temp service labor. This was actually tried in the St. Louis market a few years ago, but failed completely.
As it is, I'm being budgeted increasingly fewer labor hours---while my superiors are constantly opening job requisitions that I have to interview for and fill. Mostly for cashiers, and ALL these 'jobs' are 12--18 hrs a week. You can imagine the turn-over rate, cuz who wants that??
bcuz they like to use you. whenever they are short on hours for a week, or you are close to becoming full time. your hours will be cut. I assume your availability is open, which is why you are getting that many hours.
In fact, they cost so much that they are shooting for a 30/70 full time to part time ratio.
You are lucky to get as many hours as you are.
When you are coming up on enough hours to become full time, you will start getting those 12 hour weeks. Hopefully you won't have many bills to pay that month.
In fact, they cost so much that they are shooting for a 30/70 full time to part time ratio.
You are lucky to get as many hours as you are.
When you are coming up on enough hours to become full time, you will start getting those 12 hour weeks. Hopefully you won't have many bills to pay that month.
Agreed. In fact, our CSM has been told her target is actually 20/80 full/part time.
..........."When you are coming up on enough hours to become full time, you will start getting those 12 hour weeks. Hopefully you won't have many bills to pay that month."
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You can file for Partial Unemployment benefits for the "reduction of hours" if you've been working for the past 18 months. Go file a claim. Kroger pays into the unemployment sysytem. If Kroger won't give us the hours on our schedule, get the difference in your pay thru unemployment. I have filed a claim before and I got my "reduced hour" wage from my employer and a partial unemployment check. Beat Kroger at their own game.
It won't hurt to file a claim for benefits, all they can say is "No" and you're no worse off.
Part timers provide the flexibility in scheduling that full timers don't. Business traffic is different all times of the year and all times of the month. Some weeks you need more hours to get the job done and some weeks you need less. Variables that dictate the fluctuations in hours include holidays, weather, vacations, paid personal days off, and unexpected increase in sales/customer count.
If I have a department with 10 employees, I have the capacity to schedule 400 total hours without using any overtime (10 employees * 40 hours each). Now, say 4 of them are full time and 6 are part time. Before I even know how many hours I get and write my schedule, I already know that 160 of those hours have to go to the 4 full time employees. If we are talking about the first of the month, or Thanksgiving, or something like that, I may be given as much as 360 hours to schedule in my department. The four full time employees would be scheduled 160 of those hours. I could take the remaining 200 hours and schedule each part timer 30+ hours each. During the middle or end of the month when sales are down and there is less work to do, I might get 280 hours. Still, the four full timers would need to be scheduled 160 hours, and with the remaining 120 hours, I could schedule each part timer about 20 hours per week. Sometimes business is even slower and I'd get less hours. Sometimes full timers take weeks of vacation, so that automatically leaves an additional 40 hours up for grabs for the part timers.
If I had 10 employees and all 10 were full time, the first of all, there is no way Kroger would provide and pay for 400 hours per week no matter what business is like for that week. That is terrible business practice and a great way to waste a lot of money. What would likely happen is that each employee would be scheduled 40 hours per week all the way down the line until I ran out of hours. In the example where I only had 280 hours, I could schedule 7 employees 40 hours per week and the last three would get zero.
That is a brief summary of why part timers are necessary just for flexibility in scheduling. The fact that part time insurance is less expensive than full time insurance is also a factor in why there is a full time/part time ratio they are trying to maintain.
