Been reading a lot how some of you been warn to not work off the clock kind find it sad because my store in Bridgeport mi store 437 lets their employees work off the clock all the time...our backup deli girl comes in a half in hour every morning and does so and so does our grocery manager which non of them are salary....they let others as well do it daily
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Kroger is very strict about employees not working off the clock. You will be fired if caught.
I know someone that was fired for working 30 minutes before their shift. What they were doing was for the benefit of the company and they meant well by it. The person was able to grieve it and get their job of 20 years back.
It is an insurance liability thing. If the person gets hurt while working off the clock, insurance will not cover expenses and the person will be fired on the spot.
The people at your store doing this need to speak to their union representative and bring this practice to a stop. Or their union rep needs to get the real story and warn them to stop. They are not allowed to work without being clocked in.
Know your facts before making assumptions. If they are coming in earlier than scheduled(and clocking in), that is different. That is between them and the store manager if they are being paid overtime for coming in early.
Since I have been at kroger i have been asked once or twice if i can stay a bit longer past my shift, at that time i agreed. First i was asked by a manager if i could so I knew i would get paid for it. As others have said working off the clock is a big "no - no" If they didnt ask or tell you to I would not do it cause it will probably lead to you being in trouble or fired.
Employees working off the clock got Wal-Mart in legal trouble a few years back. It is illegal for an hourly employee to work off the clock (unpaid) in ANY business.
There are very few instances where I could see working off the clock being beneficial to the employee. It's kind of like getting paid an even smaller hourly wage. If your shift is 8 hours and you work an extra hour off the clock, then your pay is only 8/9 of what it should be. For minimum wage people, it would be like getting paid $6.43 an hour instead of $7.25 an hour. Why would you be that stupid? .-.
There are very few instances where I could see working off the clock being beneficial to the employee. It's kind of like getting paid an even smaller hourly wage. If your shift is 8 hours and you work an extra hour off the clock, then your pay is only 8/9 of what it should be. For minimum wage people, it would be like getting paid $6.43 an hour instead of $7.25 an hour. Why would you be that stupid? .-.
pressure from managers/supervisors.
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There are very few instances where I could see working off the clock being beneficial to the employee. It's kind of like getting paid an even smaller hourly wage. If your shift is 8 hours and you work an extra hour off the clock, then your pay is only 8/9 of what it should be. For minimum wage people, it would be like getting paid $6.43 an hour instead of $7.25 an hour. Why would you be that stupid? .-.
pressure from managers/supervisors.
Why in the hell would you work off the clock for a manager or supervisor? I imagine you get stepped on all the time if some clown in a red vest can convince you to work for free.
Sales are up, yet hours are steady or down. Hard working souls with kids to raise but few other job prospects are incessantly pressured to do the impossible, so out of desperation, they do what it's being implied they should do. It's demented but it happens all the time.
