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<blockquote data-quote="Ricochet1a" data-source="post: 973734" data-attributes="member: 22880"><p>They are trying to squeeze blood out of rocks again - or in this case out of the wage employees.</p><p></p><p>They are pushing no overtime company-wide now and as of June 1st, Memphis is going to start hunting heads (lower management) that doesn't adhere to this policy. They are already threatening part-timers to take additional hours or "serious" consequences will follow for them. PEOPLE already states that part-timers can't be compelled to work outside their regularly scheduled hours - look for a change in PEOPLE to accompany this new policy. </p><p></p><p>There has been a mini-scale revolt since shift pay was taken away. Part timers have refused to come in to work additional hours, since they no longer receive the split pay they used to. This has caused a greater reliance on using full-timers - with a subsequent increase in overtime hours being paid (<em>Memphis execs thought that part-timers came in to get the extra pay - they ignored the split shift pay as a reason for part-timers coming in to work a few hours). </em>Without the extra dollar an hour for doing split shifts, many part-timers felt it wasn't worth it to come in for a couple of hours - thus the new push to eliminate overtime - by screwing part-timers in the process. </p><p></p><p>Express management are trying to come up with a way to force part-timers to come in to work a few hours (either FO or a partial P1 route in the AM, or to cover a light pick-up route in the PM). Right now, there is NO WAY local management can compel part-timers to come in outside their regular shift - Memphis is looking into the legal consequences of changing PEOPLE to eliminate this "protection" for part-timers and subject them to the same "draft" requirements as full-timers - WITHOUT mandating full-timers to work BEFORE drafting part-timers. </p><p></p><p>Currently, part-timers CANNOT be drafted to work a shift until ALL full-timers are working (regardless of overtime liability for Express). The change they are kicking about would amend the draft procedure to state that part-timers cannot be drafted as long as there is a full-time employee that wouldn't be placed into an overtime situation. If all available full-timers would be placed into an overtime situation to cover a particular route, then local management could "bypass" them in drafting procedures then go to part-time employees to draft to cover a particular shift (presumably without paying that part-timer overtime, since they wouldn't get more than 8 hours during a day). Then part-time employees would be left trying to prove that they have a circumstance that would prevent them from covering a drafted shift (direct conflict with school, other employment, childcare issues). It would be the part-time employee's burden to keep an up to date listing of the hours they are in school, working another job or have child care issues with their local station management to advert being drafted for additional hours. Supposedly, simply not wanting to come in for additional work wouldn't be justification for refusing to work additional hours. </p><p></p><p>This policy (no overtime scheduled) is already playing havoc with Saturday staffing. Since Express hasn't been hiring to replace full-timers who leave, they are in a position of handing out overtime either on Saturdays (to full time employees) or on Mondays (to the Tuesday-Saturday part-timers). Supposedly this is all to come to a halt after Memorial Day. How they end up covering all Saturday routes without anyone being on 6th day, or cover Monday PM pickup routes without having part-timers in 6th day situations is beyond me - well, they are looking to hire part-timers... This is a situation which they cannot simply "tweak" goal numbers, since with current policy, anyone who works their 6th day (or 5th as a FT 4x10), automatically gets time and a half for everything they do on that 6th day. </p><p></p><p>They are looking at hiring in additional part-time employees to cover all of this, and place further restrictions on obtaining replacements for full-timers who leave. The gradual conversion of Express to a part-time force (within DGO) is happening without many realizing it. </p><p></p><p>They are also looking at updating the Power-pad software (September time frame is what they have currently planned), to implement a full "delivery manifest" capability. It will look much like the pickup manifest, except all the data from ROADS will be converted into a format where the P-pad can have all VAN-ed pieces placed into a "recommended stop order", with each stop indicating how many pieces are to be delivered. The recommend stop order will be optimized to eliminate left hand turns and known road conditions (again, gave a head-ups on this impending change quite some time ago).</p><p> </p><p>It is going to look remarkably like the Ground software (told readers of this forum months ago about this, they are now getting ready to pull the trigger on this one). You should have (or will very shortly) be handed a printout of all your regular stops from your manager, then asked to write down data as to regular delivery location, customer requirements (signing in, wait times, etc.) and other "Courier route knowledge". This data will be added to the routing software, enabling any Courier which happens to run a route to pull up a menu (just like the PU manifest menu), and get relevant customer information before they get to the stop. This is all to eliminate the need for experienced Couriers to run routes - any ol' Courier would be able to be handed a p-pad with the delivery manifest loaded and run a route at near optimum efficiency. That is the goal and it is coming. </p><p></p><p>The Cheetah program in Office is running well for them. They (FedEx exec mgt) are pleased with the software's routing capability and look to fully implement the capability nationwide in the near future. The drivers for this are paid marginally more than drivers for Ground make, and looking at the pay scale for them, $15/hr looks to be "top out pay" for these Office employees who do this driving. FedEx is already looking at customers who ship Express overnight volume within a metro market area, and looking to contact them and offer pricing for same-day delivery service which is lower than the rates they are receiving for next day delivery via Express. This is coming, it is only a question of how quick FedEx decides to place resources into expanding the capability. The GPS tracking software they use for this is able to track drivers in realtime, and even possesses a capability to "break-in" to a driver while they are driving to reroute them, or to even ask them, "what the 'ell they are doing", if they aren't moving according to schedule. The software utilizes GPS driving instructions, so someone without any knowledge of an area whatsoever can merely follow the GPS prompts and run their route. There is a centralized national "command post" which has the capability to literally track every route in real time and have maps pulled up plotting the progress of any routes which they want to see in real time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ricochet1a, post: 973734, member: 22880"] They are trying to squeeze blood out of rocks again - or in this case out of the wage employees. They are pushing no overtime company-wide now and as of June 1st, Memphis is going to start hunting heads (lower management) that doesn't adhere to this policy. They are already threatening part-timers to take additional hours or "serious" consequences will follow for them. PEOPLE already states that part-timers can't be compelled to work outside their regularly scheduled hours - look for a change in PEOPLE to accompany this new policy. There has been a mini-scale revolt since shift pay was taken away. Part timers have refused to come in to work additional hours, since they no longer receive the split pay they used to. This has caused a greater reliance on using full-timers - with a subsequent increase in overtime hours being paid ([I]Memphis execs thought that part-timers came in to get the extra pay - they ignored the split shift pay as a reason for part-timers coming in to work a few hours). [/I]Without the extra dollar an hour for doing split shifts, many part-timers felt it wasn't worth it to come in for a couple of hours - thus the new push to eliminate overtime - by screwing part-timers in the process. Express management are trying to come up with a way to force part-timers to come in to work a few hours (either FO or a partial P1 route in the AM, or to cover a light pick-up route in the PM). Right now, there is NO WAY local management can compel part-timers to come in outside their regular shift - Memphis is looking into the legal consequences of changing PEOPLE to eliminate this "protection" for part-timers and subject them to the same "draft" requirements as full-timers - WITHOUT mandating full-timers to work BEFORE drafting part-timers. Currently, part-timers CANNOT be drafted to work a shift until ALL full-timers are working (regardless of overtime liability for Express). The change they are kicking about would amend the draft procedure to state that part-timers cannot be drafted as long as there is a full-time employee that wouldn't be placed into an overtime situation. If all available full-timers would be placed into an overtime situation to cover a particular route, then local management could "bypass" them in drafting procedures then go to part-time employees to draft to cover a particular shift (presumably without paying that part-timer overtime, since they wouldn't get more than 8 hours during a day). Then part-time employees would be left trying to prove that they have a circumstance that would prevent them from covering a drafted shift (direct conflict with school, other employment, childcare issues). It would be the part-time employee's burden to keep an up to date listing of the hours they are in school, working another job or have child care issues with their local station management to advert being drafted for additional hours. Supposedly, simply not wanting to come in for additional work wouldn't be justification for refusing to work additional hours. This policy (no overtime scheduled) is already playing havoc with Saturday staffing. Since Express hasn't been hiring to replace full-timers who leave, they are in a position of handing out overtime either on Saturdays (to full time employees) or on Mondays (to the Tuesday-Saturday part-timers). Supposedly this is all to come to a halt after Memorial Day. How they end up covering all Saturday routes without anyone being on 6th day, or cover Monday PM pickup routes without having part-timers in 6th day situations is beyond me - well, they are looking to hire part-timers... This is a situation which they cannot simply "tweak" goal numbers, since with current policy, anyone who works their 6th day (or 5th as a FT 4x10), automatically gets time and a half for everything they do on that 6th day. They are looking at hiring in additional part-time employees to cover all of this, and place further restrictions on obtaining replacements for full-timers who leave. The gradual conversion of Express to a part-time force (within DGO) is happening without many realizing it. They are also looking at updating the Power-pad software (September time frame is what they have currently planned), to implement a full "delivery manifest" capability. It will look much like the pickup manifest, except all the data from ROADS will be converted into a format where the P-pad can have all VAN-ed pieces placed into a "recommended stop order", with each stop indicating how many pieces are to be delivered. The recommend stop order will be optimized to eliminate left hand turns and known road conditions (again, gave a head-ups on this impending change quite some time ago). It is going to look remarkably like the Ground software (told readers of this forum months ago about this, they are now getting ready to pull the trigger on this one). You should have (or will very shortly) be handed a printout of all your regular stops from your manager, then asked to write down data as to regular delivery location, customer requirements (signing in, wait times, etc.) and other "Courier route knowledge". This data will be added to the routing software, enabling any Courier which happens to run a route to pull up a menu (just like the PU manifest menu), and get relevant customer information before they get to the stop. This is all to eliminate the need for experienced Couriers to run routes - any ol' Courier would be able to be handed a p-pad with the delivery manifest loaded and run a route at near optimum efficiency. That is the goal and it is coming. The Cheetah program in Office is running well for them. They (FedEx exec mgt) are pleased with the software's routing capability and look to fully implement the capability nationwide in the near future. The drivers for this are paid marginally more than drivers for Ground make, and looking at the pay scale for them, $15/hr looks to be "top out pay" for these Office employees who do this driving. FedEx is already looking at customers who ship Express overnight volume within a metro market area, and looking to contact them and offer pricing for same-day delivery service which is lower than the rates they are receiving for next day delivery via Express. This is coming, it is only a question of how quick FedEx decides to place resources into expanding the capability. The GPS tracking software they use for this is able to track drivers in realtime, and even possesses a capability to "break-in" to a driver while they are driving to reroute them, or to even ask them, "what the 'ell they are doing", if they aren't moving according to schedule. The software utilizes GPS driving instructions, so someone without any knowledge of an area whatsoever can merely follow the GPS prompts and run their route. There is a centralized national "command post" which has the capability to literally track every route in real time and have maps pulled up plotting the progress of any routes which they want to see in real time. [/QUOTE]
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