A coworker of mine told me that grocery crews at several nearby stores, maybe the whole district, got their hours cut this week. We certainly did - we are now way under hours. And we could barely get trucks done before even with everyone working 40 hrs a week. Just wondering if anyone else has had this going on at their stores and knows a reason for the cut. I will tell you one thing, if Kroger doesn't change something soon, they are going to have a real mess on their hands.
I think it is a seasonal lull. Labor day was the last holiday at the end of summer. The next holiday is Halloween but that will be mostly candy and bake aisle sales.
The next major holidays are Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Elms gives so many hours for forecasted sales. The Eschedule writer has only that many hours to work with. Full timers get their 40 a week and part timers are left with the change. If the sales are over budget, then the store is allowed some extra hours to cover the extra work. I heard there is an overtime ban in my district.
Scheduling is an algorithm. The computer tells the schedule writer how many hours they get. Somehow it thinks you have a smaller workload for the week.
Also, if you have a lot of part-timers working 40 hours, they'll probably get their hours reduced to avoid making them full-time.
Well as far as I know, it isn't the computer reducing our hours, it is the store manager. And this has nothing to do with sales I don't think - because almost all of us had our hours reduced by 15, so that now we all got the same amount. We all are part-time except for the manager and the person in frozen I think. Then again I don't even know how one becomes full-time since most of us has been working 40 hrs all every week since the start of this year.
What division are you in? If you all have been working continuous 40 hour weeks for that long, most every contract says that you should have been bumped to full time.
So this has nothing to do with full-time status because if you want full-time, you have to apply for it. This is just the manager - which is ridiculous.
