There's rumors of some dept heads moving to salary including grocery and front end. That's one way to avoid OT pay! Just make them work 10 hour shifts fifty hours a week like co-managers. SMH. TBH if you're going to ask them to be MOD on a weekly basis you should be paying them something more than 50c an hour to "mind the store" while the salary people are working banker's hours.
Base hourly pay has to go up. We can't get anybody hired or get anybody to stay unless they come in with some experience pay and pretty much top out on part time pay. There should be 50c premiums for those taking on extra work like floor, bookkeeping and guest care like they had before, I think, 2010.
We are in a staffing crisis in our store. My floor supervisor told me "I don't know how we are going to get thru Thanksgiving." I told our union rep that in the next contract there better be a provision for us to be CLOSED on Thanksgiving like most grocery stores. We are SO short staffed no one is getting the holiday off.
I'd never heard that was a thing before until i saw the meat manager at my new store with a training book that said MOD and he was walking with the store manager.
i bet he's trying to get out of that store soon tbh.
