Voluntary Lay-Off Days

Has anyone seen the memo with the “undertime” process?
Once again, the company has took something very simple and over engineered it. They are going to allow you to take an unpaid day off when it’s convenient for them.

Turn in a list of days you’re willing to take off to local chairman.
The company will look ahead and see when they can let people take off and notify LC . (Minimum of 24hrs in advance.).
LC will backfill available lay-off day with the list.

I’ve never once seen a shop manager who could look ahead further than 8hrs.
What if three people want a day off but only one lay off available?
What if two people request day off and one has already previously taken day and other hasn’t?
There are way too many variables left unanswered.

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They should just let anyone take off whenever they want. Then if too many people are off and you need help, call Overtime. It’s still cheaper to have three guys off in exchange for 8hrs ot.

They probably did this just to keep the non-agreements from crying that they’re the only ones who have to take a pay cut after they’ve been working so hard to keep the company running.

Anyone who actually thought they were going to do anything that would benefit anyone other then the company was extremely misguided. This whole undertime idea was doomed from the moment they announced it. Like the op stated the shops can’t plan 8 hours out reliably let alone expect a reliable 24 hour window. If they do let people off and then something changes are you going to tell those that are supposed to be off to come back to work or call overtime/work even more short handed. This undertime idea was just a way to make the unions look like the bad guy if they said no but there was no win win in this situation for the unions, there will be a layoff just after the spotlight is off essential workers goes away and the likelihood of total bad press has somewhat dissipated.

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You serious? The LC is really going to
do something?? ??

I've seen some dumb sh– before and most of the dumbest sh– I've ever seen, I saw at UP. But I ain't ever seen anything as dumb as this sh–. I'll bet they start calling overtime next week.

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