A former belk store manager is claiming she was told by executive leadership that they wanted certain employees gone by using attrition.
The former manager claims that a few months after all employees returned from Covid lockdown, an RVP and group VP had a private meeting with her and first discussed the elimination of employees by using the overworking method or long-haul scheduling method. She claims they had a specific list of employees, the employees pay rate, position, ect…
Overworking method is targeting certain employees for physical labor, or undesired tasks such as janitorial work, or job duties not in their job title.
She claims the long haul scheduling method is used to burn certain employees out quickly, such as closing late night, then opening early the next morning, working all closing shifts, getting paid time off declined for no valid reason, being scheduled outside of normal business hours. Being asked to come in on schedules days off.
the manager says she blatantly refused to do this, and was given an ultimatum to have a certain percentage of new hires by a specific date or receive disciplinary action. After not providing the results, she was given a corrective action marked “final warning”, she was told that if she refused to sign the form she was be immediately terminated and marked as “no rehire”.
Shortly after this this store manager accepted a position with another retailer.