There is one thing I cannot figure out out if kroger can pay people in their California stores over $20.00 a hour why cannot the rest of the employees get that? Cost of living is just as bad in all the other divisions as california.
We need higher wages for all departments - not just overnight grocery. Every hiring event is a bust and managers have resorted to shuffling employees across departments to fill gaps - all the while creating new gaps in the process. A very low percentage of new hires stick around because of the low pay and frustrating working conditions. I hear more and more complaints from customers and how they're going to start shopping elsewhere, like WinCo. Major holidays are right around the corner and I dread just how worse things are about to get as more customers hit the store for their holiday meal needs. Kroger will lie through its teeth and say the pay isn't the problem, but we know that while a higher pay won't solve all the problems, it would definitely put an end to some of them.
if you have worked at Kroger for 36 months total, started part time but now full time do you get the hourly 36 month fulltime pay?
or does your full time pay clock start when you went full time. Meaning 36 mo total but didn't go full time til after 12 months total. So you only get hourly 24 mo full time pay?
if you have worked at Kroger for 36 months total, started part time but now full time do you get the hourly 36 month fulltime pay?
or does your full time pay clock start when you went full time. Meaning 36 mo total but didn't go full time til after 12 months total. So you only get hourly 24 mo full time pay?
Management was on-board for this pay hike. That's how it got done early, ten months before the current contract expires.
If you have worked at Kroger for 36 months total, started part time. but now full time, do you get the hourly 36 month full-time pay?
You put in the time; you get the money, is my understanding. Part-time is a legitimate part of your tenure/seniority.
We need higher wages for all departments - not just overnight grocery.
Agreed. A corporation making billions doesn't need to be paying pennies . . . and the union president doesn't need to take $299,000 in salary from dues from folks he negotiated wages for as low as $7.75 an hour.
if you have worked at Kroger for 36 months total, started part time but now full time do you get the hourly 36 month fulltime pay?
or does your full time pay clock start when you went full time. Meaning 36 mo total but didn't go full time til after 12 months total. So you only get hourly 24 mo full time pay?
Both cases worked average of 40 hours per week.
You would think, but nope. When I obtained full time status, rather than adjust my pay to the corresponding full time rate for the number of years of service, they literally dropped me to the bottom of the full time pay scale. I'm actually making less money full time now than had I remained part time. Since I'm not in the union though, the union turned a blind eye and management + human resources said there was nothing that could be done about it because that's "how it works" according to the union contract.
Whatever. I'm pretty sure the union wouldn't have done anything even if I had been a member. I'm watched the union do nothing as employees in my store were steamrolled by management; some of which lost their jobs while the union did nothing. I refuse to give yet another corrupt entity any of my money.
From what I hear though, the union is (supposedly) been pushing for a raise for all employees (in the Local 1000-Dallas area), but who knows if anything will come of it.
if you have worked at Kroger for 36 months total, started part time but now full time do you get the hourly 36 month fulltime pay?
or does your full time pay clock start when you went full time. Meaning 36 mo total but didn't go full time til after 12 months total. So you only get hourly 24 mo full time pay?
Both cases worked average of 40 hours per week.
You would think, but nope. When I obtained full time status, rather than adjust my pay to the corresponding full time rate for the number of years of service, they literally dropped me to the bottom of the full time pay scale. I'm actually making less money full time now than had I remained part time. Since I'm not in the union though, the union turned a blind eye and management + human resources said there was nothing that could be done about it because that's "how it works" according to the union contract.
Whatever. I'm pretty sure the union wouldn't have done anything even if I had been a member. I'm watched the union do nothing as employees in my store were steamrolled by management; some of which lost their jobs while the union did nothing. I refuse to give yet another corrupt entity any of my money.
From what I hear though, the union is (supposedly) been pushing for a raise for all employees (in the Local 1000-Dallas area), but who knows if anything will come of it.
Sorry to hear that, that doesn't sound right but can't speak on your Union contract .
For this person I know they don't start at the bottom of full time chart per contract.
I've heard rumors from a couple people within Local 1000 that similar raises across the board are in the works. Word of this is supposedly coming from relatively high places, but I ain't getting my hopes up, as I don't know who those supposed sources are.
Hmm, still not quite what Walmart and a lot of other retail/fast food outlets pay, but it should still help with the retention rate to an extent, and it may even boost overall employee performance somewhat, as well. Dallas, and Texas in general, has one of the lowest minimum wage laws in the country, and Kroger has kept its starting pay pretty close to the federal minimum wage for years now, so going from roughly $7.45/$7.55 an hour starting out to $9.50 is actually pretty significant - for a company like Kroger.
I wonder though, what impact this will have on existing employees? What about the ones that have been working for Kroger for two, three or more years and are still just regular clerks, and thus not even making $9.50 an hour at this point? Will they just get a simple bump to $9.50 and that's it? That wouldn't be fair for employees like that to be making the same amount of money as a new hire. If that happens, this could actually backfire to an extent because employees that have worked for Kroger for a couple of years or more will feel cheated and either quit or be deliberately less productive.
Hopefully, the entire pay scale will be revamped in such a way that employees with years of service will be adequately compensated.
Older clerks should be bumped to new rates along the wage scale according to the length of time they've served, like the overnight stock agreement in this thread's OP lays out.
If that ends up being the case, then things may actually improve somewhat at Kroger stores that fall under the Local 1000. Maybe not a whole lot, but hey, it's a step in the right direction!
Hmm, still not quite what Walmart and a lot of other retail/fast food outlets pay, but it should still help with the retention rate to an extent, and it may even boost overall employee performance somewhat, as well. Dallas, and Texas in general, has one of the lowest minimum wage laws in the country, and Kroger has kept its starting pay pretty close to the federal minimum wage for years now, so going from roughly $7.45/$7.55 an hour starting out to $9.50 is actually pretty significant - for a company like Kroger.
I wonder though, what impact this will have on existing employees? What about the ones that have been working for Kroger for two, three or more years and are still just regular clerks, and thus not even making $9.50 an hour at this point? Will they just get a simple bump to $9.50 and that's it? That wouldn't be fair for employees like that to be making the same amount of money as a new hire. If that happens, this could actually backfire to an extent because employees that have worked for Kroger for a couple of years or more will feel cheated and either quit or be deliberately less productive.
Hopefully, the entire pay scale will be revamped in such a way that employees with years of service will be adequately compensated.
Unfortunately, they don't pro rate the pay for experienced employees.
I have one night grocery clerk working under me that has been there for 3 years. Min wage increased to $9.25 recently here. The new hires(1 day) and her(3 years) are both making $9.25.
I think she purposely taunts me with it. I know she can crank thru work. But, she chooses to coast thru the work on and off.
Hmm, still not quite what Walmart and a lot of other retail/fast food outlets pay, but it should still help with the retention rate to an extent, and it may even boost overall employee performance somewhat, as well. Dallas, and Texas in general, has one of the lowest minimum wage laws in the country, and Kroger has kept its starting pay pretty close to the federal minimum wage for years now, so going from roughly $7.45/$7.55 an hour starting out to $9.50 is actually pretty significant - for a company like Kroger.
I wonder though, what impact this will have on existing employees? What about the ones that have been working for Kroger for two, three or more years and are still just regular clerks, and thus not even making $9.50 an hour at this point? Will they just get a simple bump to $9.50 and that's it? That wouldn't be fair for employees like that to be making the same amount of money as a new hire. If that happens, this could actually backfire to an extent because employees that have worked for Kroger for a couple of years or more will feel cheated and either quit or be deliberately less productive.
Hopefully, the entire pay scale will be revamped in such a way that employees with years of service will be adequately compensated.
Unfortunately, they don't pro rate the pay for experienced employees.
I have one night grocery clerk working under me that has been there for 3 years. Min wage increased to $9.25 recently here. The new hires(1 day) and her(3 years) are both making $9.25.
I think she purposely taunts me with it. I know she can crank thru work. But, she chooses to coast thru the work on and off.
I honestly don't blame her. I know it makes it harder on you and the others, but... I can understand her feeling like she's not being compensated fairly. Her three years should count for something. Kroger could do the right thing and see that her pay is in line with how long she has been with the company, but of course Kroger isn't going to do that... because ultimately, Kroger doesn't really value its employees.
It's just a bad situation all around; for you, her and the rest of the crew.
