Posted on 02/27/2020 4:24:24 PM PST by matt04
Workers say Target is making drastic cuts to their schedules and doubling their workload as it increases minimum wage under its ‘modernization plan’ to increase efficiency
Adam Ryan, 31, has worked at Target in Christiansburg, Virginia, for three years. He works additional jobs whenever he’s able to, but is regularly scheduled only 20 hours per week at Target, despite having open availability.
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In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Bonnie Furlong has worked as a cashier at Target for about seven years, but still makes what starting workers make, $13 an hour.
“The last time they raised it, they cut our hours, so I’m basically making less than I was before they raised it to $13 an hour,” said Furlong. Her hours were reduced from 32 to 38 hours per week to around 20 hours per week. “If I wasn’t getting social security, which isn’t very much either, I wouldn’t be able to work there because I couldn’t afford it.”
Matt Funnell, a Target employee in Massachusetts since August 2018, saw his weekly schedule change from full-time, over 30 hours a week, to less than 10 hours in January 2020.
“My biweekly paycheck doesn’t even pay rent. Co-workers of mine are losing health insurance and other benefits,” he said. “My higher-ups still expect us to get the same amount of work done in a fraction of the time.”
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But Ryan and several other Target workers have noted a drastic reduction in scheduled hours and significant increases in workloads as Target has increased their minimum wage and rolled out a “modernization plan” in 2019 to increase efficiency. They think that broader influences in the retail sector are responsible for their plight – notably, the actions of their hard-charging rival Amazon.
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It is Minimum wage for a reason and not anything more than a start point. You might say minimum wage for minimum skills
I used to shop at Target frequently, I gave up on them when they went full homo several years ago.
Wait til some of the jobs there get automated.
No many knew this would occur. They still exploit the outcome. They never cared this would occur, they knew it.
Brick and mortar stores are in a tough position because of the evolution of shopping options. That's no one's "fault", it is the way it is and they have to decide how they will deal with it.
But it's a shame these people (employees) don't understand how this came to be and how the political groups promising them more are shafting them. A really key takeaway that these employees need to realize is that they will never raise a family and live the American dream on minimum wage, Ever. No matter how high the minimum wage is raised. If they want those things, they need to figure out how to get qualified for work that is not basically the domain of HS students.
Understanding cause and effect is something that few young people grasp. They think, and will continue to do so, that the remuneration for work should be based on their economic needs, not the value of their work.
They raised minimum wage to virtue signal. Just like they did the multisex bathrooms and the no-criminal-history-checks policy.
Believe it or not, lots of families manage on $31,000/year (without any outside help, even with 3-4 kids). Of course, our houses might need work. Our cars might be old. Paying utility bills can be tricky. We might not look so hot. (lol) And sometimes we eat like it’s the Great Depression. Then again, you can save money cooking everything from scratch.
My only debt is a mortgage. But, if the property tax were lower, I’d have much more to spend. One year I brought in about $50,000 (before taxes) - that was a good year. Hoping this year will be another good one.
Exactly. THye were used by the $15/hr groups. As a example, no retailer will pay that for a cashier to spend X hours swiping barcodes and pressing the “debit/credit” button at the end as most transactions are. Just look at any big box store like Target, grocery stores and even McDonald’s and you see the low skill jobs are now self-scans and kiosks.
The employers gave up years ago trying to teach employees how to count back change. If you are incapable of learning how to do that, how could you be worth $15 an hour?
We taught our daughter how to back change by the time she six.
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