My boss had a talk with me to discuss how I will now be hourly bc of a lawsuit. He stated that 2 former employees sued Follett at the end March who said that their jobs were classified incorrectly. Is there anyone else that thinks this is BS?
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http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/511106230-campus-bookstore-managers-say-follett-stiffed-them-overtime-pay
So are cm2's under sm1's?
Everyone under a Store Manager I was affected.
Were cm2's affected by this?
Schemes schemes and more schemes...funny, for years and years I did copious amount of unacknowledged overtime as a salaried employee.....last year I was demoted to a fictitious title, still doing the same job as before the change (and more, as other staff was hacked away) and made into an hourly employee.....not sure on what planet this is acceptable practice, but hey, without any form of representation, this is what happens...I see now more folks are being given a boot to the face....I guess the plan is to hope those left will either die on the job or leave.....good luck with all the casuals and part timers. You do get what you pay for, and hopefully one day you will get what you deserve. I once read that a corporation has no conscience, and by God, isn't that the truth.
Yes. Written up as if you've done something wrong. All OT will be unauthorized. Staying clocked in past your scheduled shift is a correctable action. 3 strikes and you're out. If things are getting tight, like they did 4 years ago, this is what they do. All VPs will be accountable for unauthorized OT. They'll beat on their RMS to enforce it.
Yes, I think it's bs. They're using it as an excuse to do what they've wanted to do for a long time - turn salaried employees into hourly employees. Next they'll cut hours. No one over 30 hours. This is just the beginning. Wait and see.
Please be careful. Do not clock out and stay and work (to get what needs to be done completed). If you're caught doing that you could be terminated. They got you in a trick bag. Don't get tasks completed in the allotted time (no ot) and you are incompetent and get written up. This will get ugly.
What do you mean written up? Like you did something wrong?
Great post. Great question, too. follett screwed employees by classifying them as exempt. They worked them mercilessly and kept head count down as a result. These employees must have sued and either follett settled or they lost. Now, they'll cut your pay because you will be paid overtime IF you work more than a 40 hour week. Here's the rub, if you run up too much overtime (that's any overtime, in reality) you'll be written up. Welcome to valueless follett. It's a crappy place to work.
If and its a big if, with how Follett has turned into an unethical pile of flaming crap, they actually give the folks a 40 hour a week hourly check then this change benefits the employees big time since they will rightfully qualify for OT and be able to recognize the full potential of their hourly rate. With how Follett operates I'd expect they will cut the new hourly employee hours down to Part Timer status at some point to make sure the family gets their dividend. Think of how many workers over the years have been ripped off by Follett claiming the person had an exempt position when it really shouldn't have been and working them so many hours over 40 that the pay drops down to less than $15 bucks an hour on average. This lawsuit was 100% justified.
I do feel for some of these lower earning store managers that are about to getting killed with this change since they remained exempt and have to take on a much bigger work load.
Exempt overall in the retail sector is the biggest fraud being run on the American worker with how the average per hour pay gets diluted with all the extra hours worked throughout an average week.