Sunday Availability

Date: Jul 10, 2013

Sunday Availability

Date: Jul 10, 2013

something doesnt add up here, you could claim the day on religious rights, or just change your availability?

Or are you trying to keep all the benefits of a open schedule, while not having a open schedule?

BagBoy · Guru

The store does not come first. It's discrimination. aclj.org/workplace-rights/working-on-the-sabbath-sunday

mega-kitteh · Guru

Just claim it's for religious reasons. The store can find someone else to cover the shift.

Date: Jul 10, 2013

Well you have discovered the real meaning behind the old saying "Kroger Means Better Meat!" The really sad part is that Kroger under the guise of being a caring, Christian company has thoroughly trained all their store mgmt. and most dept. hds that Sunday is a normal workday and every employee should live and bleed that the work always comes before family, religion, friends, school, etc. If you can now see how they really are then you being a Godly Christian person should find a better, more caring place to work. It's actually a sickness that gets in your blood -- you get on that terrible treadmill and become a heathen to better your standing at work. Just because Kr has made a deal with the "Devil" doesn't mean you have to follow their lead. We are not on this planet and in these bodies to adhere to a greedy, rich Fortune 500 company's demands over and above any other priority in our lives.

And to make this even more unfair, I guarantee you that the mgmt./staff at Kr General Office never even work Sundays and probably very few Saturdays. So It's DO AS YOU'RE TOLD, NOT AS I DO mentality. Contact your division's H.R. or maybe even approach your store's District Manager and ask them why you have to work every Sunday a.m. when you have requested off for religion reasons. They won't like helping you but when cornered they will VERY SLOWLY address your issue. This advice is assuming that you are available anytime on Saturdays and the remainder of the week which will help you win your cause. Good Luck and God Bless!

4hourrush · Guru

BagBoy wrote:
The store does not come first. It's discrimination. aclj.org/workplace-rights/working-on-the-sabbath-sunday

What would happen if, in theory, every person in the department claimed a religious reason for not working on Sunday? I mean... I hate to say it but SOMEONE has to work on Sunday.

Date: Jul 10, 2013

4hourrush wrote:
BagBoy wrote:
The store does not come first. It's discrimination. aclj.org/workplace-rights/working-on-the-sabbath-sunday
What would happen if, in theory, every person in the department claimed a religious reason for not working on Sunday? I mean... I hate to say it but SOMEONE has to work on Sunday.

Stores used to be closed on Sundays.

Date: Jul 11, 2013

Anonymous wrote:
4hourrush wrote:
BagBoy wrote:
The store does not come first. It's discrimination. aclj.org/workplace-rights/working-on-the-sabbath-sunday
What would happen if, in theory, every person in the department claimed a religious reason for not working on Sunday? I mean... I hate to say it but SOMEONE has to work on Sunday.
Stores used to be closed on Sundays.

But, profits come first now and employees are treated as slaves. They gotta EARN their minimum wage pay checks!

mega-kitteh · Guru

But if they have plenty of other help use them. When I got hired, I put Sundays as unavailable to work due to Church/religious reasons. I don't go to that Church anymore, but I choose to leave my Sundays unavailable. Why go through the hassle of changing it?

4hourrush · Guru

I mean in the service departments. For example the bakery I work in has 6 employees. Because 2 of them go to church on Sundays I almost ALWAYS work 8-4 then, I don't mind it but what if I decided to start attending church? If they turned me down theoretically I could start saying it was discrimination. If all the employees wanted to go to church and not work on Sunday, someone would HAVE to give in and work it.

Date: Jul 11, 2013

4hourrush wrote:
I mean in the service departments. For example the bakery I work in has 6 employees. Because 2 of them go to church on Sundays I almost ALWAYS work 8-4 then, I don't mind it but what if I decided to start attending church? If they turned me down theoretically I could start saying it was discrimination. If all the employees wanted to go to church and not work on Sunday, someone would HAVE to give in and work it.

Seniority.

BagBoy · Guru

4hourrush wrote:
I mean in the service departments. For example the bakery I work in has 6 employees. Because 2 of them go to church on Sundays I almost ALWAYS work 8-4 then, I don't mind it but what if I decided to start attending church? If they turned me down theoretically I could start saying it was discrimination. If all the employees wanted to go to church and not work on Sunday, someone would HAVE to give in and work it.

That's why kroger prefers to hire godless thieves.