thedownhillEXPRESS
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Anyone know the people policy on making a full time Mon-Fri employee being required to work on saturday if they want their weekly minimum?
Anyone know the people policy on making a full time Mon-Fri employee being required to work on saturday if they want their weekly minimum?
Anyone know the people policy on making a full time Mon-Fri employee being required to work on saturday if they want their weekly minimum?
"Vantexan" related a situation much like this sometime ago.
Since minimum pay requires an employee to work all hours scheduled and OFFERED, if you are below 35 hours in your normal 5 day work week - and are offered work on your scheduled day off, and you refuse, I believe it constitutes an automatic waiver of minimums.
Take a look in PEOPLE, section that deals with pay, then requirements for minimum pay. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that the key phrase "offered" is still in there.
PEOPLE is also changed according to the whim of Express without them notifying the employees of a change, so just because something is policy at one time, doesn't mean it is written in stone.
The way i see it if you are off saturday you are off if im coming in on a scheduled day off im checking that worked on day off box on my time card/powerpad..This happened to me when I was swingin' until an old timer told me if you're m-friend they have to offer you hours m-friend. I confronted my manager- a pretty cool guy- about it and he sheepishly asked me how often did they ask me? I worked but wasn't asked much anymore and I got the impression they can't make you work Saturday for your minimum. Dislaimer- this was about 5 years ago.
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The way i see it if you are off saturday you are off if im coming in on a scheduled day off im checking that worked on day off box on my time card/powerpad..
.All OT hours are to be paid at the OT rate. For example, you've worked 29 hours from Monday to Friday. Saturday you go in and work 4 hours. You're to be paid your 35 hour guarantee PLUS the 4 hours of OT. Payroll will probably miss it when your time card is submitted, so you'll probably have to have your manager get it squared away, and he or she may have to run it through more than once.
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It seems like this is not hapening everywhere cause we all dont know the rules/laws.
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It seems like this is not hapening everywhere cause we all dont know the rules/laws.
We no longer have "people" in appropriate area they have told us you have to go in the intranet to access it..Good luck if you can find a PC to access this info....Management DOESN'T want you to know what is policy and what isn't - your "ignorance" empowers them to do whatever they think they can get away with.
You need to take the time (you'll most likely have to do this on your time - but with all the split shifts coming, you'll have it), to get a copy of PEOPLE and READ it, front to back. Once you've read it, read it AGAIN.
By doing this, you will know specifically what Express can do to you, and what little protection you do have from local management trying to play games.
As it stands, there isn't a hell of a lot left that protects the employee from management - those sections of PEOPLE have been gradually eliminated over the years. Managers have broad discretion now to do pretty much as they please, if they can put it under "operational need". There are a few protections left (vacation bidding being one), but most of the policies which protected the employee from being "jerked around" are no longer in PEOPLE.
With the current attempts to eliminate overtime, I'm still trying to get information as to whether the policy on handing out additional shifts is going to be changed (seniority assignment WITHOUT regard to others total hours worked).
Most managers haven't read PEOPLE front to back - they are "familiar" with the contents, but in most cases, they end up calling HR to get a definitive ruling on something.
Don't expect that by reading PEOPLE you'll be able to act as a "HR lawyer" and get things to work your way. On occasion (in the past) employees could and did get management to back down on local policies which were in direct conflict with PEOPLE. This has all changed, since PEOPLE has been heavily modified in the past 5-10 years, to eliminate those pesky protections that wage employees had. Still, it is better to know what the actual corporate policy is, rather than "trusting" your manager.
We no longer have "people" in appropriate area they have told us you have to go in the intranet to access it..Good luck if you can find a PC to access this info....
Sorry to dig up a slightly older topic, but does all this apply to swing drivers ? Manager here is sidestepping paying OT by scheduling swings off on a weekday and in on Saturday. Does the people manual cover this at all ?
Please clarify further, the routes scheduled are to cover a SDR courier day off. So as such, does that mean it's on the up and up? Previous manager never did this, having taken volunteers only for SDR courier days off.