DLKAPA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 2295 times:
yes, legally 37 hours is still considered part-time. But seriously, how? I can't live any kind of a life when I'm working 37 hours a week (on average). The only reason I can figure I'm working 37 hours as opposed to 40 is so that they don't have to give me full time.
I'm typing this as I'm getting ready to head in to work tonight. My schedule consists of this:
8 hours yesterday (sunday), 6.5 hours today (monday), off tomorrow, 6.5 hours wensday, 8 hours thursday, off friday, and 8 hours saturday.
Anybody who thinks that kind of hours is part time needs to have their head checked.
DLKAPA
btw I'm not bitching to any higher-ups because I'm quitting in a month to get ready for college.
Srbmod From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 16888 posts, RR: 51 Reply 2, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2284 times:
I once worked part time at a place that wouldn't let most part timers work more than 35 hours a week. For the longest time they didn't enforce it, as most weeks I'd end up with 37-38 hours. Whenever I'd be in danger of hitting 40 hours that week, they'd send me home early or have me come in late to keep me from hitting 40. Then the district manager started making the managers account for the extra hours in their departments, and that's when they started to get strict on part time employees' hours. I didn't have to worry about it too long, as I was made a full-time employee not too long after that.
North County From United States of America, joined Aug 2001, 712 posts, RR: 2 Reply 5, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2268 times:
Your classification is part time - That is different then the number of hours you work.
Leskova From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 6075 posts, RR: 72 Reply 6, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2265 times:
Not only in France is 35 hours full time... same here in Germany, and in some companies it's even less... but they're trying to get the standard amount of working hours per week to go back up - and when I started working again on 24 May, my contract also said that I have a 40 hour work week - which I don't mind, because so far I end my weeks somewhere between 42 and 45 hours.
But, honestly - 37 hours considered as part time? What, then, is "legally" considered full time? 40 hours? Or, as one could also call it, 36 minutes of extra work per day? Or how high is the limit from which you're "legally" not a part time employee anymore?
Sabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2252 times:
Sorry to get a little bit off-topic but allow me one question, how many free days/each year are usual in the USA when you have a full time job? I have 30 free days each year.
JAL777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2239 times:
Sabena, it depends on the company.
I earned Paid Time Off at a rate of approximately 11%, which equates to approxamtely 1 month off per year worked full-time. Mind you, this was a part-time position. However, I don't think there are any legal requirements for paid vacations.
JeffM From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3266 posts, RR: 53 Reply 10, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2232 times:
Eric,
Less then 40= part time. Part time = don't have to pay benefits. Get it?
And i'm sure King Soopers really doesn't care about your social life if your an hourly part timer... be serious... what do you want them to do? And your full or part time status is really just a code on your time card. There are many people that routinely work less then 40 hours and are considered full time with benefits. Then there are salaried employees who can work well over the 40 and get no additional cash.
I routinely work 5-10 hours a week at my job, yet I have an expense account, have no time clock, and have a comfy salary as well. How else could I spend so much time goofing off taking pictures?
Sabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2232 times:
JAL, thanks for your reply!
Here it depends also on the company you are working for, but I think that it is compulsory that they have to give you at least 25 days off.
I recall that I saw a report about Japanese workers in TV a while back, they showed an example, a guy who was working for Toyota had to work 6 days a week (I can't remember how many hours) and he only got 10 days off each year, he said in an interview that he usually don't take advantage of all 10 days which is normal for almost everyone in Japan.
That is completely insane, since I saw the report I am really glad that German companies are very generous with free days. Can anyone confirm that every Japanese company is only giving so few free days?
JAL777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2223 times:
It's cultural, I guess.
While not getting a decent sized vacation may be considered cruel by the average European, its a sign of laziness in Japan. I guess the US lies somewhere in between.
CPDC10-30 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2000, 4759 posts, RR: 26 Reply 13, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2183 times:
I guess the US lies somewhere in between.
For many US employers even senior level positions only get 2 or at most 3 weeks of vacation at the beginning of employment. Canada is a little better but not by much, still many people only get the two weeks.
I can't believe some companies are so cheap as to ask you to go home early so the status doesn't change. It is pretty sad that there are such scumbags around.
Concord977 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 1261 posts, RR: 29 Reply 15, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 2172 times:
Erik,
The reason that most retail companies schedule their employees at 37 hours is not to move them to part-time status. It is to provide a 3-hour 'buffer' to avoid the employee working over 40 hours per week, and thus being eligible for overtime pay.
Also, in the U.S. most companies draw the line between full-time and part-time at 27-30 hours per week. This reduces the number of employees who are eligible for medical and other benefits.
If a company considers 37 hours per week to be part-time and does not offer benefits to those people - that is definitely the exception to normal practices.
N317AS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 2166 times:
Sabena 332,
At Boeing after 20 years, I get 160 hours of vacation, 80 hours of sick leave, and everyone gets time off from 23rd of December to 2nd of January, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day after, and the 4th of July. It's brutal, but someone needs to do it.
MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13336 posts, RR: 64 Reply 18, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 2160 times:
Well, I´ve got to work 40 hours a week or 167 hours a month, since it is impossible to work 167 hours in some months, simply because they don´t have enough days, it averages out at the end of the years. I get 25 working days paid leave a year (legal minimum in the EU). Most of my work takes place at night and on weekends. For this I get a taxfree bonus, which makes up about 1/3 of my net income.
Since we are chronicaly understaffed (since I started here 4 years ago), we get to work plenty of overtime.
Our boss has the idea that you have to earn your leave by working overtime, and since I´ve got to beg for every day off, I often have onwe or two weeks of leave left at the end of the year.
Usualy we work public holidays, while getting a bonus. Esp. christmas, easter and new year are used for maintenance, since the airline doesn´t fly during the holidays (very little cargo). Planning takes the opportunity of the planes standing around on the airport to send us work orders for scheduled maintenance.
Health insurance, pension and social security insurance are compulsory (50% paid by the worker, 50% paid by his boss) and apply to part time workers as well.
Okie From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 2355 posts, RR: 3 Reply 19, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 2159 times:
A company I worked for worked part timers 39.5 hrs per week M-F. Many of the people put in an extra hour a day during the week and would only work 3.5 hrs on Friday and get an early start on the weekend until the boss figured it out.
Changed the work week to Wednesday thru Tuesday with Tuesday being your short work day, he could not stand to see anybody have an extended weekend.
Paulc From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 1490 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 2150 times:
37 hours / week is full time with my employer - I could work longer hours but would get no financial reward for doing so. Overtime is not something we do unless there is a specific task that has to be completed by a deadline.
USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 21, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2133 times:
"Please, if you have any decency in you, don't shop at a Kroger store."
Dang, and I thought the King Soopers across the street from my place in Boulder was a good thing...
Greg
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DesertJets From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7673 posts, RR: 18 Reply 22, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2130 times:
Most places that I worked at in crappy pt work land had ~34 hours as the cut-off between part-time and full-time. Being full-time entitles you to several benefits, including health-insurance. There is enough documentation out there, anecdotal and otherwise, of store managers manipulating peoples schedules to keep their hours just below the threshold for benefits. And God forbid if you need to work OT, they get just as anal about that too.
As for time off, I think I earn roughly 1.5 days per month paid time-off, plus a slightly higher rate for sick days. Which reminds me that I actually need to turn in about 3 months worth of timesheets with my current accruals on them.
Stop drop and roll will not save you in hell. --- seen on a church marque in rural Virginia
DLKAPA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 23, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2114 times:
Yeah, I've been yelled at for staying overtime, last week I was only scheduled 35 hours but ended up working an extra hour because every time my shift came to an end it got really busy and I couldn't get away from the checkstand.
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 24, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2107 times:
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
25 Jcs17: God damnit, KROC, quit taking away my opportunities to award boxes of tissues. Anyway, just to rub it in. I work 35-38 hours a week, I have full benef
26 VSLover: hmm, well i am contracted full-time at 33.5 hrs/week. (leave it to a law firm to make it 33.5) but overtime kicks in after 35 hours/week. clearly the
27 Cactus739: At the company I work for anything under 40 hours is considered part time. But, when you average 20 hours per week for the quarter you are eligible fo
28 Cactus739: fogot to mention I personally work 50+ hours a week, but I'm salaried and I love my job....
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