Ha ha ha, is there really a thing such as full-time status at a Kroger?
I have worked shifts where I had 7.5 hours in one day.
The closest I have ever come was when we had a weird week with people calling out or not showing up and I ended up coming in on two of my days off and getting 36 hours on that check period.
Sorry to not answer your question, I just saw 'full time status' and laughed. Kroger will do what it can to avoid FT for as many as possible. God help you if you are a lowly courtesy clerk.
Only managers, dept. heads, or long-time employees (6-7 years) get full time status. I work 40 hour weeks frequently but am still considered part time.
__________________
I thought people were joking when they said working for Kroger sucks...
Your pay rate stays the same but you get much better benefits including more paid time off and health insurance for your dependents. Your top pay rate also increases.
depends on the contract. in Local 1996 unless you were full time before hitting 18 months, your first raise after making full time will be at a higher rate than if you were still part time. part time gets like 5c each raise, full time can get 25, 30c or more depending on how long they've been there until they hit top rate.
Full timers get a higher pay cap, but rarely get a pay increase upon receiving full time (think about it, would you give someone more money right after you guaranteed them max. hours?). Department heads, subdepartment leads, and management (duh) are the only positions where full time is guaranteed. Backups and assistants are usually full time as well, but this is because they usually have high seniority. Which brings us to our last group of full timers, seniority kings. If you've been working with Kroger before 2010, your chances of full time are higher. In conclusion, go get a degree in medicine/engineering or learn a trade so you don't have to become entagled in Kroger politics just to get a survival income. Kroger may seem bad, but Walmart and Target are even worse since your full time status can be switched off much easier.
I got to full-time in a matter of months. Some of you guys' stores must really suck.
To answer OP's question - you more than likely DO receive more pay at full-time, depending on your contract. The big jump hits at 5 years when you max out your pay. If you become a department head or assistant, you get to skip the 5 years and receive max plus a little.
In the Louisvile Mid South division, full time people always get more than part time people for the same length of service. The difference starts out small but increases with the length of service. For example, a person who is hired in at full time (like that's going to happen) makes 15 cents more per hour than a person hired in at part time. If you become full time after 4 years, the difference between the full time rate and the part time rate for the same length of service is 80 cents per hour. At 5 1/2 years (top rate for part time) the difference is a dollar. In a few weeks that will drop to 85 cents because part time people who are at top pay will get a raise. Full time people don't top out until they reach 6 1/2 years of service. At that point, the difference between full time top rate and part time top rate is $3.20.
The only reason I ask this question is, I reached full time 6 months ago and have seen no difference in anything but insurance. So if all it did was guarantee me 38-40 hours a week and a higher rate that I will max out at, that I wont ever reach for 20 years with the same 5cents raise every 6 months then its pointless.
The only reason I ask this question is, I reached full time 6 months ago and have seen no difference in anything but insurance. So if all it did was guarantee me 38-40 hours a week and a higher rate that I will max out at, that I wont ever reach for 20 years with the same 5cents raise every 6 months then its pointless.
I thought the raises for ft were better. If all that changes are insurance and your pay cap, then that would suck.
The only reason I ask this question is, I reached full time 6 months ago and have seen no difference in anything but insurance. So if all it did was guarantee me 38-40 hours a week and a higher rate that I will max out at, that I wont ever reach for 20 years with the same 5cents raise every 6 months then its pointless.
Ask your union steward for a contract book. I find it very surprising you haven't gotten a raise when you went to full time. They may owe you back pay.
The only reason I ask this question is, I reached full time 6 months ago and have seen no difference in anything but insurance. So if all it did was guarantee me 38-40 hours a week and a higher rate that I will max out at, that I wont ever reach for 20 years with the same 5cents raise every 6 months then its pointless.
Have you checked your user profile on ExpressHR? It will tell you your next pay raise. Compare it to what's in your union handbook. If you are getting part time pay and part time raises, bring it to your steward's attention pronto. Kroger may owe you back pay.
Again, the huge increase in pay comes later, between 4-5 years (apparently 6 at some stores) when you get a $3 or so raise all at once.
You will still need to progress through the pay scale brackets. So if you were at the part time cap and the next bracket had 6 months of time between your current rate of pay, you would need to maintain your full time status for 6 months to move to the next bracket. And then so on a so forth. I know a few people who have quit because of this.
You will still need to progress through the pay scale brackets. So if you were at the part time cap and the next bracket had 6 months of time between your current rate of pay, you would need to maintain your full time status for 6 months to move to the next bracket. And then so on a so forth. I know a few people who have quit because of this.
Gee who wouldn't? If you have any remotely decent skills and a good work ethic, you may as well just work in a trade like masonry or welding. At least then you won't have to put up with this idiotic circular logic of "Customer 1st, but God forbid that we let courtesy clerks work more than 16 hours whenever we have a grocery clerk during the day."
