Have you ever experienced fast food companies purposefully giving you just under 40 hours a week to avoid paying you overtime? Should these companies be held accountable for such practices? How do these tactics impact employees’ ability to save and thrive financially? Share your thoughts and experiences below! #FastFood #OvertimePay #WorkplaceIssues #FinancialWellness #SavingsGoals #EmployeeRights
“How dare a company schedule me full time but not give me OT I wasn’t promised”
I didn’t know you could ruin your joints by standing. You should get that checked out.
Overworked but complaining about not getting enough work.
I’m going to suggest your anger is misdirected.
You shouldn’t be angry about not getting overtime. You should be angry that working 40 hours isn’t enough to pay your bills.
Be angry. But be angry for the right reason. Full time work should be a living wage.
You’re full time. You were getting full time hours.
You guys dont get it
By giving just under they can get full time out of you without giving you any benefits of an actual full time post. Like extra vacation etc.
I worked at a place that very purposely scheduled people for 31 hours because at 32 you got benefits like having a regular schedule. It was such bullshit
A million years ago, the state where I lived had a law that said if you work 40 hours for 6 weeks, they have to give you benefits. When the place I worked part time was short staffed, I worked 40+ hours for 6 weeks.
Right at the 6 week mark, my hours were cut to 16/week with no option for additional hours because they were replacing me with someone with more education.
Learned a valuable lesson that day. These fuckers don’t give a fuck about us.
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Why
So they avoid fulltime pay
The whole point of overtime is to incentive companies to not make you work more than 40 hours. Since 40 hours is full time.
You’re lucky you got 38-39hrs. Many places cap at 32 because that technically makes you “part time” which means they are not required to offer you benefits like health insurance.
usually it’s them and retail keeping you at 32-35 so you qualify as part time.
you know…. so you can’t have benefits. no health insurance, no pto, no vacation days, etc etc.
I’m not sure not overworking you is an actual evil move. Keeping you just below full time so they don’t have to give benefits or guarantee hours is, but not refusing to overworks you. Know I’m all about this sub, but the whole point of overtime laws is to deter companies from working you more than 40 hours. Be pissed about rental prices and wage these days, not this.
They are staffing accordingly to assure no one is there too much past the recommended amount of work hours. They are actually doing it right.
Y’all need to move to CA for its worker protections. The entire US is backward when it comes to worker protections. TBH having worked in the EU, even CA sucks by comparison.
And when they’re short staffed your answer should always be ” sorry, wouldn’t want to go into OT”.
That’s not the problem. The problem is the rate of pay.
It makes sense to avoid paying overtime, so as long as they are sufficiently staffed, nothing wrong with avoiding overtime.
Now if they are reducing hours to below a threshold that would earn you benefits, that’s wrong.
Plus, if they are in the position where they are having to pay overtime on a regular basis it’s because they are understaffed.
Overtime is an option, not a guaranteed right. Years ago in college I managed a restaurant and was not allowed to go into overtime. Scheduled everyone within 36 to 40 hours and full coverage. Unfortunately I seen people in my various careers using OT as a guide as to how to live and budget. When overtime was cut off, they went off on managers that what they were going to do, since they counted on that extra money. This also falls in the same area where their bank sees the ACH deposit for their paycheck before payday funds it. Then the company doesn’t release the money till the actual pay day and the employee is stuck with fees for all those withdrawals made before payday. Seen of couple of coworkers complain to HR about this and were promptly told to look in employee handbook and paper work they signed as to what is stated as the actual payday. I always see OT as a bonus, not something that can counted always. In my current job, at the end of my 3rd day I’m already 1 to 2 hours in OT. If they ask me to come in an extra day or two is great. Glad I took those courses to get the certification and licenses for the field I’m in. I do asbestos abatement/air quality monitoring and negative air flow testing.
When I worked for a now-defunct electronics retailer (call it “Transistor Township”), they would sometimes schedule folks last minute due to call outs or scheduling fuckups, causing them to work (40+x) hours for the week.
If that happened, they would be sure to schedule that person for the next week for (40-x) hours. Then they would pay them for exactly 40 hours for both weeks, thus avoiding overtime.
Yes, it was very illegal. No, nobody ever did anything about it.
I don’t see a problem with companies scheduling you 38-39 hrs.
It’s annoying that companies used to be a bit more generous with hours … now it’s like if you work for anything cooperate there being as tight as possible to get their bonuses . Everyone out for themselves
I’m very anti-overtime and before everyone gets their pitchforks out, I mean in the way that if you’re scheduled 9-5, you work 9-5 and no more. Fuck all that 9-godknowswhen. Working is supposed to supplement our lives *not* *become it.*
haha get another fast food job and use one to dictate availability to the other. folks back here are gaming it that way. not ideal i know
literally everywhere does that .. my former retail job cut my hours below 39 just so I don’t even get benefits
Banks do it as well to tellers. Cough… Bells Pargo
We got shifts more than eight hours paid OT in our previous union contract, so the scheduler has reworked everything to 5-7 hour shifts.
Cava did that to me lol