I work at a grocery store. I'm non-union and "full time". There are about a billion problems with the management of this store.
1) This morning I was notified that my hours had been cut from around 34 to 10. I was not given any prior notice or reasoning, when my boyfriend [who also works at the store] inquired about it, he was threatened with being fired. The schedule is changed without notice on a weekly basis, without anyone letting the employees know. When an employee is not aware that he/she has work, and does not show, he/she gets penalized.
2) I work completely without breaks. When I started with the company [when it opened] there was three people to a shift in my department [bakery]. Now there is one, which means 8 hours shifts with no breaks. I am afraid to even ask to take a 2 minute break. It has been like this for over a month and shows no signs of changing.
3) The handbook stated that overtime will be paid for any day over 8 hours. I have worked many 10 hour days with this company, and the hours have been manipulated to other days so that they are not time-and-a-half. Of the 2 owners, they both have different things to say, one of them claims they don't pay overtime at all. When I agreed to work the overtime, I was told I would get paid for it. I also worked on Thanksgiving and did not receive overtime.
4) Hours are regularly missing from my paycheck. Of the 15 or so paychecks I have received, about 10 or more have had missing hours. There have been times where it says on my pay stub that I didn't work that day. I have alerted my boss and he says that he checks in the camera and sees me not working. I have asked if I could see this footage for myself, and was denied.
5) They are not careful with our information. Regularly they use pay stubs and private information as scrap paper for photocopies. I have been given other people's social security numbers in my pay stubs. I am afraid of who might have my information.
6) Our pay stubs have another company's name on them, and all our hours say they are unscheduled. They also own 3 or more other stored in the state, but have instructed us to lie to anyone who asks if we are affiliated. They also changed a number on my boyfriends social security information, and I'm wondering what that will do to benefit their company, and whether it will screw up tax returns and similar things. I also wish to know if they are obviously lying to the government, or if these things are excusable.
I'll leave you with these for now, seeing as if I put all the illegalities on here it would be way too much for one post.
1) This morning I was notified that my hours had been cut from around 34 to 10. I was not given any prior notice or reasoning, when my boyfriend [who also works at the store] inquired about it, he was threatened with being fired. The schedule is changed without notice on a weekly basis, without anyone letting the employees know. When an employee is not aware that he/she has work, and does not show, he/she gets penalized.
2) I work completely without breaks. When I started with the company [when it opened] there was three people to a shift in my department [bakery]. Now there is one, which means 8 hours shifts with no breaks. I am afraid to even ask to take a 2 minute break. It has been like this for over a month and shows no signs of changing.
3) The handbook stated that overtime will be paid for any day over 8 hours. I have worked many 10 hour days with this company, and the hours have been manipulated to other days so that they are not time-and-a-half. Of the 2 owners, they both have different things to say, one of them claims they don't pay overtime at all. When I agreed to work the overtime, I was told I would get paid for it. I also worked on Thanksgiving and did not receive overtime.
4) Hours are regularly missing from my paycheck. Of the 15 or so paychecks I have received, about 10 or more have had missing hours. There have been times where it says on my pay stub that I didn't work that day. I have alerted my boss and he says that he checks in the camera and sees me not working. I have asked if I could see this footage for myself, and was denied.
5) They are not careful with our information. Regularly they use pay stubs and private information as scrap paper for photocopies. I have been given other people's social security numbers in my pay stubs. I am afraid of who might have my information.
6) Our pay stubs have another company's name on them, and all our hours say they are unscheduled. They also own 3 or more other stored in the state, but have instructed us to lie to anyone who asks if we are affiliated. They also changed a number on my boyfriends social security information, and I'm wondering what that will do to benefit their company, and whether it will screw up tax returns and similar things. I also wish to know if they are obviously lying to the government, or if these things are excusable.
I'll leave you with these for now, seeing as if I put all the illegalities on here it would be way too much for one post.
