in the Cincinnati and Dayton oh area Kroger is having a job fair for the next few weeks. supposedly they want to hire 1200 people for all departments. my question is why. they are cutting hours now. are they trying to get rid of the long time people? is it because of the affordable care health plan? anybody hear about this?
not sure what the idea is, but I'm guessing it's so they can spread the hours out even more. I used to have a manager that would explain things to me, and at one point they were giving me 18 hours a week, I was BEGGING for more so I could afford to eat something besides dry catfood, and they hired two new people for my department. I had a hissy, and he explained that corporate ordered them to hire more people because a couple of folks were averaging almost 30 hours a week and they were afraid that they'd have to make them full time if we didn't have more people to spread the hours to.
Corporate policy is that no department manager is allowed to schedule any employee more than 28 hours a week unless they're already a full time employee. I manage to average a little more than that by working one day a week in another department whenever I can, but that puts me working 6 days a week to make about $250 take home.
I only make that much because I've been working in the deli for 4 years, so my scale is better than yours. i've worked only deli, but one of my coworkers started as a courtesy clerk, about the same time I did, and only moved to deli 2 years ago. He makes about $1.50 less an hour than I do.
Corporate policy is that no department manager is allowed to schedule any employee more than 28 hours a week unless they're already a full time employee.
Grocery has everyone at least 32, on up to 40 a week at my store..... ??
Corporate policy is that no department manager is allowed to schedule any employee more than 28 hours a week unless they're already a full time employee.
Grocery has everyone at least 32, on up to 40 a week at my store..... ??
We are working 40s+ a week because the store can not find reliable people to work nights with us. That may change soon if people are forced onto our schedule from another closed store.
Are they actually getting scheduled that many hours? My response was directly to this quote (from another poster):
Corporate policy is that no department manager is allowed to schedule any employee more than 28 hours a week unless they're already a full time employee.
Grocery, as well as many other departments, is scheduling part-timers to as much as 40 hours a week. So if this is corporate policy, it is not applying to my store, for some reason.
Are they actually getting scheduled that many hours? My response was directly to this quote (from another poster):
Corporate policy is that no department manager is allowed to schedule any employee more than 28 hours a week unless they're already a full time employee.
Grocery, as well as many other departments, is scheduling part-timers to as much as 40 hours a week. So if this is corporate policy, it is not applying to my store, for some reason.
It's as long as the AVERAGE is below 28. People who consistently get over 28 can expect to see a drastic reduction in hours within a 3 month period.
I guess we're just lucky. Fresh off the turnip truck, we get 40 if we want them, and after 3.5 months, I've had no cuts. The other donkeys' schedules are consistently at 40 too, including the new ones.
I guess we're just lucky. Fresh off the turnip truck, we get 40 if we want them, and after 3.5 months, I've had no cuts. The other donkeys' schedules are consistently at 40 too, including the new ones.
The rules may be different for that department, simply because it's such a hard job that there's a ton of turnover. At my old store, the only way the new folks could get 40 a week was to work grocery overnights. Other than that, every person in the store that got full time hours were those who had hired in as full time before the policy changed, the ones who were willing to take department manager or supervisor slots, and the support staff like AAs.
I guess we're just lucky. Fresh off the turnip truck, we get 40 if we want them, and after 3.5 months, I've had no cuts. The other donkeys' schedules are consistently at 40 too, including the new ones.
Either you're getting full time benefits then, you're getting screwed over, or your contract sucks.
I guess we're just lucky. Fresh off the turnip truck, we get 40 if we want them, and after 3.5 months, I've had no cuts. The other donkeys' schedules are consistently at 40 too, including the new ones.
Either you're getting full time benefits then, you're getting screwed over, or your contract sucks.
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With all the low hours in every other dept. in the store, I don't see it that way...
I do have health insurance now. How many hours do you have to average over how many weeks to be classified as full time? I was told that my position would be full-time after training (probation?), but if I were to call in or leave early, dropping below 36 during those weeks (12 I think) that it would stat all over. I've averaged 40 since the third week of July.
I only make that much because I've been working in the deli for 4 years, so my scale is better than yours. i've worked only deli, but one of my coworkers started as a courtesy clerk, about the same time I did, and only moved to deli 2 years ago. He makes about $1.50 less an hour than I do.
been with kroger 3 years and even with 40 i only take 231
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This sounds better than hiring the first person to fall through the door. We have had some real "winners" who Kroger hires, but then again you have to look at who hires them. Are they now going to do like every other company and say we have 3000 people here to fill 800 jobs and pick out the good ones.
