#HolidayPayDilemma #FairPay #EmployeeRights
Hey everyone! 👋 Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like you were getting screwed out of holiday pay? Well, I recently experienced something similar and I wanted to see if anyone else has gone through this.
Here’s what happened: we worked on a holiday and initially, we were told we would receive 8 hours of holiday pay. But then, they took it away because apparently, if you work on the holiday, you only get time and a half. If you’re off, you get the full 8 hours plus your hours for the week. 🤔
I believe that everyone should be fairly compensated for working on holidays. Here are a few possible solutions that come to mind:
– Advocate for a clear and transparent holiday pay policy within the company
– Discuss the issue with HR or management to seek clarification and possible adjustments
– Look into any state or federal laws that protect holiday pay rights
What are your thoughts on this? Have you encountered a similar situation before? Let’s discuss and share our insights! 💬 #FairPayDiscussion #EmployeeRightsAwareness
Okay so where I work, if you are scheduled to work on one of our paid holidays such as Independence day, you get paid time and a half for your shift. If you work 8 hours, you get four extra hours of pay. If you work 6 hours, you get three extra hours of pay and so on. If you are scheduled off on the holiday, you get the full 8 hours of pay, even if you’ve worked 40 hours or more. If you work 40 hours that week but you were scheduled off on the holiday, you get 48 hours worth of pay. If you work 40 hours that week and one of those days is the holiday, you get time and a half for the holiday. If you work 8 hours on holiday, you get 4 hours of holiday pay, not eight. That’s what the screenshots are showing. I’ve been there 2 years and this is how it works. But this year, it looked like they were going to give us the 8 hours in addition to our pay. That’s what it shows on the screenshot where it says 8 hours holiday pay. But then I clocked out and checked my hours, and where it said 8 hours of holiday pay, it now says zero. The other head cashier working with me and I asked the manager on duty about this, and he said that no, we only get the time and a half. We don’t get that extra eight. They didn’t change anything or decide that people who are working on the holiday should get a little bit extra and certainly more than people who don’t work on the holiday. They gave it to us and then took it away. I’m glad I saved the screenshots, and so did my co-head cashier, because we are going to raise hell about that. Further, it sparked a discussion between the two of us about unionizing. She and I are both from Chicago originally, and we know about unions. We both used to work Union jobs when we lived in Chicago and we didn’t get this kind of crap from our employers. If we worked overtime, our employer didn’t come to us and Jack hours away from us later in the week to cut our overtime out. If you worked a double shift, you didn’t get screwed out of it later. Double shifts are hard on the body, and to have an employer come around and decide to cut your hours by 4:00 because you worked a 12-hour shift because they couldn’t get coverage for a call out is just garbage. We live in Texas with few to no worker protections, and we need to protect ourselves. That’s what prompted the discussion about unionizing, but unfortunately our locals around here are not just weak, but seem to be pro-employer! We floated the idea between ourselves of organizing our own worker Rights group, because we don’t think that we can count on the help of our local union. I was in that Union a few years ago, and when I hired on at the job that was unionized, the union rep seem to think that it was a Earth shaking accomplishment to score the right to wear blue jeans. This is a grocery store. Blue jeans should be given in that environment. But when it came to any real benefit like increasing pay, it took a freaking pandemic and nobody wanting to show up for work before that place raised the pay at all. They are still one of the lowest paying companies in this industry in this area. And they are Union? I don’t think so. But we do need to organize, and we do need to be able to stand up for ourselves against this sort of thing. What concerns me is that this is Texas and this is an at-will state, so even though it’s illegal to retaliate against workers for discussing organizing and making attempts to unionize or organize, there’s nothing to
stop an employer from making up a nonsense and seemingly unrelated reason to fire people who talk about the subject.
Yes, quitting is another option, but that doesn’t change anything for people who want to work there later. They’ll be still getting the poor treatment that we’re getting now, and we want to stop employers from doing that.
Any other ideas on how we can handle this?
Check with the Union on the matter or the employee handbook/guidelines regarding holiday payment even if they been revised.
Afterwards. I’d say contact a Employment Lawyer and lawyer up. You might have a lawsuit on your hands.
Sprouts! Which store number do you work at? I’m a fellow employee.
WTF!? I get the guaranteed 8 hours holiday AND time and a half if I work it. You got robbed.
Check your company policies. Mine has one that if you use any sick time on your shift before or after a worked holiday, you don’t earn the holiday day pay.