Shareholder profits over people. Got to find Grandpa’s golf outings in retirement… 🫠 I can only imagine them attempting to get healthcare
sounds like the required benefits are limiting peoples income and companies are just finding way around it. I still don’t know why Americans think medical should be tied to employment. Why not remove these required benefits from the employer and find another solution.
Luckily there are multiple functioning health care systems around the world to take inspiration from.
Walmart plans for extraordinarily high turnover. If the median worker is there longer than a year, they are overpaying for labor. If less than a year, they’ll bring on new workers at higher rates than their experienced workers. Why give the experienced people higher pay when they’ve proven they will stay on at less?
Walmart is one of the scummiest employers on the planet, and they have an outsized influence on the rest of the labor market.
When I worked as a restocker at a grocery store, they planned the majority of us for 3 hours a day (we were mostly minors so we didn’t know better), from 17:00 till 20:00. Because, at 3.5 hours, you were entitled to a 30 minute break, and even tho it was an unpaid break they still didn’t want you to take it. Did you get a lot more stuff then normal and so you had to work overtime? Tough shit, you still ain’t getting that break even tho it’s now 21:00
Sometimes they would even cut some people their hours back if they felt that they weren’t working hard enough (again, we were minors, some of us making 4 bucks an hour, they were that petty). Fuck this system
Otherwise known as corporate welfare.
Many places won’t rent to someone that cannot prove monthly income greater than 3x the rent.
This happened to me. I provided a bank statement that proved I had a year of rent in savings…
Tips help the owner not the employee.
Yeah, tying this to tip culture is directly undermining the point she’s making.
She’s saying it’s society’s problem and then ending by bringing up an individual’s act of tipping. Don’t get me wrong the people keeping the tipped minimum wage what it is should be tried in The Hague for crimes against humanity. But the solution is not to tip more, the solution is to raise the minimum wage, especially the tipped minimum wage. Or even better to have collective bargaining backed up by strong unions for workers in all sectors.
nO 1 wAnTs 2 wOrK nE mOaR!!!1!11!
Even at 32 hours I don’t get any benefits at Walmart.
Why are there even brackets and thresholds for benefits? It should be a linear scale. 1 hour of work = 1/40th, 29h = 29/40, 30h = 30/40th etc.
Or perhaps the “benefits” should be from government and not employer.
Because fuck the poor!
Also we have a similar, but nowhere near a bad so called benefit cliff in the uk
So this has been the case for over twenty years now with people “discovering” this well known and well documented practice of keeping employees below full time to keep them from giving benefits. Hell it was exactly like this when my sister was working there as a teenager.
I mean this is kind of what is wrong with America honestly, memories of a gold fish and one of the reasons why no progress ever gets made.
I remember when I was working at McDondald’s and they never worked me above 32 hours typically. Back then it was 40 as the cutoff. That they’re allowed to scuzz their way around the law through this means we’ll never get equity with our system. They must be punished for such practices.
Yup. I worked at Target circa 2010 and it was the same. I was scheduled 38 hours a week, and you would get written up if you were late clocking out.
Tying benefits to employers is idiotic. Even if you want to tie benefits to work requirements, this system fucks the millions of people with multiple part-time jobs.
it’s accomplishing exactly what it’s designed to
Capitalism is all about a few people getting all the capital, if you’re not owning something you’re the worker that they exploit to do so. Billionaires and trillionaires are inevitable in such a system.
We have been cowed too much to take back everything that has been stolen from us 😒
Seems the answer would be to end exemptions like this for companies with gross revenues or profits over certain figures that people smarter than me can figure out.
Stop tying health benefits to employment. Universal healthcare solves about 90% of this problem.
or nationalize them and make the workers own the corp
All of my life I been lied to
Just found out my boss makes 500 times what I do
And still wants to cut my hours back
To 39 and three quarters ‘cause 40 gets you a health plan
And I got a feelin’ I’m a need it
Losin’ feelin’ in my knees and my lower back
And I’m going back, trapped like a lower class clown
Hold a rat down, so we kill each other over cheddar
Keep us hungry so we never organize for nothing better
Just make it through the day, make it through the week– You Say Millionaire Like It’s a Good Thing, Guante
This is not a new thing. There’s a documentary from 2005 called “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” that goes into detail about similar actions they were taking back then.
I’m sure it’s gotten progressively worse these last 20 years since
I don’t think it has gotten progressively worse, only because it couldn’t.
