Manager 1 and 2 go hourly while 3's and directors stay salary?? Why some managers and not all?
From an inside home office source, Next are ops managers, text, etc. All changing to hourly along with us. Home office thinks we do 210 hrs of o.t. a year. Huh! So that is average 42hr a week. Other than summer, when was the last time you worked only 40?
Thinking the company will do away with the smaller stores or overly micromanage the crap out of them...if they can get "mangers" to work for pennies on the hour they will keep them and micromanage. If not, the store will be gone. No more manager 1 positions.
Store manager IIIs were spared this embarrasment because of the schools where they work are deemed "important" to our reputation as an industry leader. Smaller schools didn't make the grade.
New law is the excuse.
I have to hand it to management; they made lemonade out of this one. Everyone saw this as a way for employees to be more fairly compensated. Honestly, if you're making under $50K, you should be paid for all of your hourly wages. Follet was cutting staff and pushing the work on their poorly paid "exempt" staff. Rather than be contrite, they pull at their parts and wave them in everyone's face. We're going to well beyond the statute and we're going to engineer this into a huge salary grab. That's right, the millionaire class who own this smelly excuse of a company are getting richer by paying the employees they abused even less. They're doing it legally, too.
Follett won't hesitate to reach into your pocket until the day they fire you. They've already show disdain for people with more than 15 years into the company, so your day is coming, too.
Time to look for another job. It's less painful than working for these creatons.
Home office will get a bonus and meet the numbers on the backs of their most valuable employees, the ones who face the customer every day.
New laws about exempt status- employees making over 43k (something like that) can stay salary. Everyone making less must be hourly. Law is in effect starting 2017.
42-45 hours is the norm.. Always has been, with the exception of the month of July. The ship is sinking.