so the contract says hours after 6pm are supposed to rotate among full time people. except they're not. neither are days off. i went back and checked, i haven't had a friday, saturday or sunday off since i took my vacation months ago. i know the union rep will just mumble needs of the business but this is a little ridiculous.
has anyone else notice this happen at their store, do they rotate the shifts there?
Plenty of people here with full-time hours (40 hrs, though I'm not sure if they're "officially" full time).
Nope, haven't seen them rotate hours/shifts. I always see the same person the same day at the same time, except for vacations and other leave of absences.
Schedule is done by seniority. Senior person gets the early hours. Also you can pick on day as your regular day off. The rest is up to the department head. You can request a day off but there is no guarantee that you get it. Again seniority.
I've never heard of that. In my department, there's the department head, who does do one 1-9 shift a week, and a full time baker who always works 5:30-1:30 unless she's the acting manager that week.
in the local 1996 contract it say says, "Full time schedules (other than night stock employees) with hours after 6:30pm will be rotated among available employees as far as it is practical to do so."
it's not happening. i know the system isn't doing this because the schedule writer doesn't let it run those shifts.
in the local 1996 contract it say says, "Full time schedules (other than night stock employees) with hours after 6:30pm will be rotated among available employees as far as it is practical to do so."
That's the key phrase right there. In certain departments certain jobs have to be done at a certain time. Bakery is a prime example. Baking has to be done early. So the bakers always work the early shifts. If there's only one cake decorator, they'll work early too. Not as early as the bakers, but early enough to do any early cake orders that were taken the night before.
yeah that's the key phrase but why wouldn't it happen on the front end? we full timers all interchangeable as far as what we're skilled to do from cashier to floor & accounting.
The only rotation they have to do, that i'm aware of, is in the case that a full timer has to work more nights than the others. Example, we had a lot of full time cashiers and when the schedule was written, one person had to work 11a-730p twice a week. According the the contract, anything after 7 is a night shift, so once per week the bottom 2 full time cashiers came in reverse seniority, so the bottom person came in at 10 and the person above her came in at 11. You can't be forced to work 2 night shifts until everyone above you works 1.
