question, who will fill in for those four hours when they are sent home? will the next shift be called in four hours early and then sent home early too??There is no overtime at Walmart. They will be sent home four hours early from their next shift. There is only My Share every three months which every employee gets, but the company extracts price match loss from that pay.
B.S.
Management can and does approve OT when needed...
They will be sent home four hours early from their next shift.
True...but Wal-Mart is hardly the only company that does that...
There is only My Share every three months which every employee gets,
You make that sound like a bad thing...how many other retail companies hand out a quarterly bonus to EVERYONE
You're full of crap, and could not prove your statement even if the lives of your children depended on you doing so.
These are the holidays, and busy retailers, Walmart among them, are making sure they are fully, or even overstaffed, during the best earning period of the year.
More idiocy from the uneducated and uninformed class.
Please explain what “My Share” is, and what you mean by them withholding “price match loss”. I’m sorry, I don’t know what you mean by these terms.
Walmart pays extra on holidays - even if there is no over time. Might only be a dollar per hour but it’s something.
Correct---overtime is a "coaching" offense at Walmart, with a second offense resulting in firing.
Any accidental overtime incurred over the Thanksgiving holiday because of "Black Friday or Thursday or whatever" will be deducted from your current pay period and added to your next to keep you under that threshold. And if you are not a full-time employee (i.e. a manager or regularly work 30-35 hours per week), then you are not eligible for time and a half.
Been there done that during my time as an unloader/stockman 10 years ago.
My company has no concept of 'My Share'. If I want that, I have to purchase stock like everyone else, then work my butt off to try to improve the company bottom line.
question, who will fill in for those four hours when they are sent home? will the next shift be called in four hours early and then sent home early too??I worked there three years ago as a night stocker and got threatened with less hours if I continued to "abuse overtime" - I accumulated three minutes OT in 40 hours. When a holiday comes around, you get paid for the holiday, but then are given only 4 days work.
I did it for beer money, enjoyed giving the managers $h!t over their petty crap and bailed when they wouldn't give me time off to visit relatives. "We didn't hire you for your convenience." That was understood. I told them it was a two-way deal - W-M got an employee who was always on time and never missed a day in three years (highly unusual) . In return, there was a tacit agreement that allowed me to take off the summer months (that worked for two years - then we got a new manager).
Sayonara.
Regarding overtime; Federal Department of labor laws mandate the Federal minimum wage and overtime rules. Overtime for non-exempt hourly workers does not kick in until after working 40 hours within a single work week and there is no DOL mandated overtime for working more than 8 hours in a day or for working Saturdays, Sundays or holidays. Some states have higher minimum wages and more generous OT rules and whichever is higher and more generous is the one that has to be followed in that State. Some companies pay hour workers shift, weekend or holiday differentials but again, that is up to the employer’s policy and not required by law. Wal-Mart pays OT when workers work over 40 hours in a week, they have to. But many employers do the same thing regarding work schedulingb to keep workers from going into an OT situation. Wal-Mart is not unique in this.
Two years ago I worked at Target during the Christmas season. Target opened at 5:00AM on Black Friday and I worked an 8 hour shift and 8 hour shifts that Saturday and Sunday. Working that weekend was not optional. It was all hands on deck, everybody worked. I was however surprised and very pleased when I got my paycheck that I received an additional 25 cent per hour for working on Black Friday but that was at Target’s sole discretion. The managers also provided breakfast, lunch and dinner food for all the workers working that weekend, not that I expected it but I thought it was a nice way to let us know we were appreciated. I worked my but off at Target but I have to say they were a good company to work for when I was there.
Last year I worked at “We Be Toys”. Again, working the Black Friday weekend was not optional. They opened at midnight on Black Friday and I worked an 8 hour shift and was back in a 3:00PM on Saturday afternoon till 10:00 PM and back on Sunday morning at 7:00AM till 3:30PM. I received no extra pay for working the holiday weekend. At the time I was working a fulltime job and many days during the holiday season, left my day job after working 8 hours and worked a 6 hour shift until midnight at the retail job, getting up the next morning to be back at work at 8:00AM at the fulltime job and back again at “We Be Toys” for my evening shift till midnight. I also worked Christmas Eve. I wasn’t scheduled to work but traded with a co-worker who had young children. I was happy to do that for her and also for the extra money. The reason I worked the second job at the time was because I needed the money and I was happy to have the opportunity to earn it.
Years ago I worked in grocery retail. I worked all sorts of crazy shifts sometimes closing the store at 11:00PM as assistant manager on duty and returning at 5:00AM the next morning to open the store or working overnight shifts for stocking. And many more years before that I worked for a convenience store as a manager that was open 7-days a week, 365 days a year and I worked many Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years days. I was salaried and typically worked 60 or more hours a week and never got OT. It came with the territory.
I rarely if ever got OT in any of those retail jobs because I rarely work more than 40 hours in a week.
I have an exempt salaried position now in PR and HR and I don’t get any OT for working over 40 hours or for bringing work home with me during busy times like open enrollment season and fiscal and calendar year ends.