Months ago, my seniority date, as seen on the paper schedule beside my name, was my hire date. Then months ago, I noticed that my seniority date was something that was a few months after my hire date. I always thought it was a computer glitch, but week after week, after week, the paper schedule kept saying the same thing.
And now... my seniority date is January 2019.... What's weird is I'm looking at other people's seniority dates, and I know they've been here for MANY years and they have seniority dates that are from like 14 months ago. Some have seniority dates that are NEXT MONTH. It's still January, not February...
Most likely they printed the schedule by another date. If you became "Full Time", your seniority date is different then your hire date. For every 2 weeks you worked part time you earned 1 week towards your full time status. So basically after becoming full time the time between your hire date and full time change is cut in half and that become your seniority date. When seniority is then grouped into, Full Time "Status 1", Full Time "Status 3", Part Time "Status 4", where people in a higher levels and bump lower levels.
If your store is like mine, we had a TON of people jump from full time status 3, or part time status 4, to full time status 1. My store is understaffed and basically, if you show up to work and want the hours, it's easily possible to get 40 hours every week. So because of this a ton of people became full time and now union contract says they HAVE to get full time hours. This changes your "seniority date" on the schedule, using the formula EUID said.
On our schedules, the senority goes in order from top to bottom, as in what order they appear on the schedule. However, managers and backups appear at the top, even if they haven't been with Kroger longer than their clerks. But after that, the clerks appear in their order of senority.
I started in 2014, i have been full time from day one! I started in November of 2014 and now my seniority date is saying December 2016? What is up with this?
I started in 2014, i have been full time from day one! I started in November of 2014 and now my seniority date is saying December 2016? What is up with this?
You were "full time" as in working 40 hours a week or "full time" as in being classified as a full time associate? Normally, seniority dates are adjected once someone becomes "full time" officially. They count 2 weeks of part time as 1 week of full time, so I'm guessing you gained official full time status in early 2018.
This is normal for select a shift on the schedule. Shifts are picked in order of seniority. Behind the select a schedule paper is a list of staff from most senior to least.
The union rules for scheduling are:
The most senior staff picks first. Preceding down the line to the least senior staff member. If any shifts remain after all staff have picked; management will start to fill shifts utilizing the least senior staff going up until all shifts are full. Until I started gaining seniority I didn't get away from this b.s. If management has to they can over ride day off requests to fill in shifts. If staff members have too many restrictions management can refuse schedule restrictions to fill slots to allow business to run. I hate it when people call out because they were schedule on a date they were to have off instead. Eventually management can enact attendance protocols on people if need be.
