PFFT - bonus? Not unless you're management. Be grateful they allow you to have whatever piddly amount they pay you, and try to find a job with another company if you want to actually make enough money to pay your bills AND eat, or if you ever want to work full-time.
I've been with Kroger for 4 years, and the only bonus I've ever gotten is the dinners they have every now and then.
your contract may offer holiday pay, basically a free payday, but that pretty much vanished for people hired after 2005 in my contract as far as i can tell.
our store usually gives us something, last year it was a ham and a block of cheese, and one other time we all got a turkey (because someone had ordered too many)
That's got to be something your store manager does, it's definitely not corporate policy. I've worked for Kroger for 4 years, and never been given a damn thing at Christmas except a cut in hours.
That's got to be something your store manager does, it's definitely not corporate policy. I've worked for Kroger for 4 years, and never been given a damn thing at Christmas except a cut in hours.
You have to understand that what you may be seeing as corporate policy is actually your division's policy; other divisions can have negotiated wildly different benefits.
That's got to be something your store manager does, it's definitely not corporate policy. I've worked for Kroger for 4 years, and never been given a damn thing at Christmas except a cut in hours.
You have to understand that what you may be seeing as corporate policy is actually your division's policy; other divisions can have negotiated wildly different benefits.
Thank you for pointing out that the christmas gift/bonuses may be a requirement of the contract a different division has with their local. I'll definitely look into it. I do however, stand by my statement that providing a bonus isn't corporate policy. A corporate policy would apply across ALL divisions, regardless of other required benefits covered in the various contracts, unless one of the contracts specifically forbade it. I can't quite see any local negotiating a contract that denied their members a benefit provided to other employees of the company.
wageslave wrote:A corporate policy would apply across ALL divisions, regardless of other required benefits covered in the various contracts, unless one of the contracts specifically forbade it.
Keep in mind however that there are actually very few of these "corporate policies." And in fact, most of that is covered by key retailing and quevision/1+1.
wageslave wrote:I can't quite see any local negotiating a contract that denied their members a benefit provided to other employees of the company.
Sorry, not to be unnecessarily snide or sarcastic, but don't make me laugh. Benefits provided by contracts vary wildly from local to local. This includes things like discounts, pensions, insurance, bonuses, raises, etc.
