We recently had a contract change and we got pay raises. Well I didn't since I was already capped out for part time. I found out that if I became full time, I could advance further in pay raises. So I talked to my union rep in person when he came to my store and made it very clear I understood what I needed to do. So I worked the 12 weeks straight and got 40 plus hours each week. So I should be locked in at full time now. Hr express still doesn't reflect any raises. I know hr express takes time to process. But how long should it take? How soon will I get the raise I'm supposed to be at? I looked over the contract and I've been with Kroger enough months to be making 12 an hour already as a full time associate.
In my division, for example, it's automatic. As long as you work twelve consecutive forty hour weeks, you're automatically reclassified in the system as full time. It does have to be twelve consecutive forty hour work weeks though - you can't throw in a vacation week (even if it's a forty hour one) or work say thirty-eight "regular" hours and hit forty or more by getting overtime as overtime/paid time off hours don't count and will reset your weeks back to zero so you'll have to start your twelve consecutive weeks all over again.
To find out if you are truly classified as full time, ask your office ASP or the co-manager over HR to check how you are coded in the system.
The picture posted of the wage scale looks awfully like the wage scale recently agreed upon for the Local 1000, and my increase kicked in back in September, so if yours has not yet, then the first step would definitely be verifying your full time status.
My part time raise kicked in. I went from 11.20 to 11.45. But that was the part time cap. I'm trying to advance from there so I tried to get locked in. I'm in local 1000 yes. Are you too? My union rep told me it didn't matter if some of the hours I get are regular or overtime. As long as they add up to 40 or more per week. Of course this excludes holiday pay and vacation, personal days etc. My last week was the week of thanksgiving but besides the holiday pay, I did actually work 40 hours.
My part time raise kicked in. I went from 11.20 to 11.45. But that was the part time cap. I'm trying to advance from there so I tried to get locked in. I'm in local 1000 yes. Are you too? My union rep told me it didn't matter if some of the hours I get are regular or overtime. As long as they add up to 40 or more per week. Of course this excludes holiday pay and vacation, personal days etc. My last week was the week of thanksgiving but besides the holiday pay, I did actually work 40 hours.
Yes, I'm under the Local 1000 contract. I obtained full time status a couple of years ago by working twelve consecutive forty hour weeks. While I'm not in the union, I'm pretty sure overtime hours don't count, so say you worked six hours on a Sunday and eight hours the next three days, but the fifth day you worked ten hours. You'd have thirty eight "regular pay hours" and two "overtime pay hours". Even though you hit forty, two of those hours don't count towards your twelve consecutive forty hour weeks. I'm not 100% sure of this, but I think that might be the case.
If your twelfth consecutive forty hour week was the week of Thanksgiving, then you might actually want to give it another week or two because when I transitioned from part time to full time, it took ExpressHR like... two weeks or so to update with my new pay scale, and the following week, I believe, I got retro pay as a result of the delay. If nothing changes by mid December or so, then it may be time to talk to your ASP/co-manager over HR.
I just got my new schedule since I should've been locked in and they gave me less than 40 hours. So does this mean I didn't get locked in or does the hours not necessarily reflect it?
update: a while back i've been scheduled almost 40 a week but not quite so i stayed over wherever i could and made my 40 or more per week. keep track of the weeks as i went along. next thing i know, i got locked in. it didnt take effect right away. maybe 2 weeks or so after i did the 12 weeks thing. but since then, ive been getting 40 every week. also, my pay scale went up to $12 an hour which is considered full time. This month, I just got my pay raise to 12.20. Next raise will be 12.75 Then after that, it should be 14.75 then capping out at 15.05. I would say this is good, but as the economy has changed, its like I am right back where I started. Even $25 an hour is barely ok. 15 an hour aint ****.
