At my store, all of the cashiers are having their hours cut this week. No cashier is working more than 27 hours. I'm only working 22.5 hours this week. Is this a normal thing or is this something that I should be concerned about?
Yeah, I think the store managers are under pressure to cut part time(hired after June 18, 2010) hours below 24 hours a week per quarter in Mi. It will cause insurance coverage to pause until you average above 24 hours again in a quarter. Any part timer hired before June 18,2010 will need their hours cut below 20 hours a week to make the insurance pause.
We are so understaffed in my department that I don't worry too much about it.
Volunteer for extra hours and answer phone when called.
It's not happenning just at Kroger. It is happenning in all of retail to save money on the Obamacare.
A part time employee can work more than 28 hours as long as they don't work more than 40. I schedule my part time employees in dairy 40 sometimes. Technically part timers max out at 28 but in many circumstances it's impossible to have all of your part timers work 28 or less.
Does your store call for front end relief help a lot? Your front end manager might have been over scheduling in the past weeks for you and has to cut back this week. So your front end will probably rely on relief help a lot this week... (like mine does unfortunately...).
A mythical beast, rarely summoned, for it slumbers in the dairy box and toils in the deli, and cannot be relied upon. We of the front end, when getting crushed, must simply work harder. Faster! Faster! the overseers bark, handling their whips menacingly. And woe to those of us burdened by a lengthy, unorganized order of WIC checks, for though we strive faster, we meet naught but failure, and the customers grow belligerent. Soon, each register reeks of the odors of sweat and fear, as the lines back up, and somewhere, a cashier steps closer toward the hallowed ground of complete mental breakdown - but silently, and inwardly, so as not to alarm the customers.
A part time employee can work more than 28 hours as long as they don't work more than 40. I schedule my part time employees in dairy 40 sometimes. Technically part timers max out at 28 but in many circumstances it's impossible to have all of your part timers work 28 or less.
Does your store call for front end relief help a lot? Your front end manager might have been over scheduling in the past weeks for you and has to cut back this week. So your front end will probably rely on relief help a lot this week... (like mine does unfortunately...).
No offense, but methinks you didn't really get what this thread was about before replying. We aren't talking about part vs full time hours, we're talking about hours being cut because of obamacare.
A part time employee can work more than 28 hours as long as they don't work more than 40. I schedule my part time employees in dairy 40 sometimes. Technically part timers max out at 28 but in many circumstances it's impossible to have all of your part timers work 28 or less.
Does your store call for front end relief help a lot? Your front end manager might have been over scheduling in the past weeks for you and has to cut back this week. So your front end will probably rely on relief help a lot this week... (like mine does unfortunately...).
No offense, but methinks you didn't really get what this thread was about before replying. We aren't talking about part vs full time hours, we're talking about hours being cut because of obamacare.
A mythical beast, rarely summoned, for it slumbers in the dairy box and toils in the deli, and cannot be relied upon. We of the front end, when getting crushed, must simply work harder. Faster! Faster! the overseers bark, handling their whips menacingly. And woe to those of us burdened by a lengthy, unorganized order of WIC checks, for though we strive faster, we meet naught but failure, and the customers grow belligerent. Soon, each register reeks of the odors of sweat and fear, as the lines back up, and somewhere, a cashier steps closer toward the hallowed ground of complete mental breakdown - but silently, and inwardly, so as not to alarm the customers.
You're in the wrong business. You should be an author :)
To topic, though, front end hours seem to always be scattered and rather pitiful. Our schedule for the front end is like 10 pages long and almost all scheduled for 12, 16, maybe some in the 20s. Some as few as 8 hours a week. And the solution is calling other departments to the front when it gets busy. It's awful.
A mythical beast, rarely summoned, for it slumbers in the dairy box and toils in the deli, and cannot be relied upon. We of the front end, when getting crushed, must simply work harder. Faster! Faster! the overseers bark, handling their whips menacingly. And woe to those of us burdened by a lengthy, unorganized order of WIC checks, for though we strive faster, we meet naught but failure, and the customers grow belligerent. Soon, each register reeks of the odors of sweat and fear, as the lines back up, and somewhere, a cashier steps closer toward the hallowed ground of complete mental breakdown - but silently, and inwardly, so as not to alarm the customers.
You're in the wrong business. You should be an author :)
To topic, though, front end hours seem to always be scattered and rather pitiful. Our schedule for the front end is like 10 pages long and almost all scheduled for 12, 16, maybe some in the 20s. Some as few as 8 hours a week. And the solution is calling other departments to the front when it gets busy. It's awful.
Welcome to Kroger and Front End. Ours is the same way. And since we just lost a bunch of courtesy clerks back to high school, we are a little understaffed. Again. You should see our "gobacks" carts. We have an average of six or seven of the small ones sitting around on a daily basis. Why? Because we don't have enough courtesy clerks to take care of them. And, if I try to do them on my own, I get a call over the intercom or hear "all courtesy clerks to the front" about two minutes later.
A part time employee can work more than 28 hours as long as they don't work more than 40. I schedule my part time employees in dairy 40 sometimes. Technically part timers max out at 28 but in many circumstances it's impossible to have all of your part timers work 28 or less.
Does your store call for front end relief help a lot? Your front end manager might have been over scheduling in the past weeks for you and has to cut back this week. So your front end will probably rely on relief help a lot this week... (like mine does unfortunately...).
No offense, but methinks you didn't really get what this thread was about before replying. We aren't talking about part vs full time hours, we're talking about hours being cut because of obamacare.
No offense but I never saw that mentioned at all by the original post. Hours get cut all the time. You're coming to assumptions.
