Short answer: there are none. You don't get em until you've been with them for at least a year, but that might be dependent on your union contract if you have one.
Yea I can remember the hiring recruiter telling me with my previous Kroger employment and other experiences I would likely start out at higher wage. What a joke!
Yea I can remember the hiring recruiter telling me with my previous Kroger employment and other experiences I would likely start out at higher wage. What a joke!
I knew someone who was told that she'd get experience pay. She never did, so she ended up quitting. Got a job doing what she loved and not in retail, so there's that too.
You can get experience pay... but the sad part is you have to fight for it, and fight for it, and fight for it some more... and most people don't stick around for six to twelve months and fight for it that long because they feel lied to, get discouraged, and quit. I had a conversation with a co-manager once who said Kroger is "horrible" when it comes to experience pay. This co-manager came from a competitor that verified a new hire's experience before he/she started and set his/her pay rate accordingly with the very first paycheck. That's how it should be, but Kroger prefers to cheat those with experience out of their experience pay. Just one of several underhanded tactics this company practices.
Part time benefits are going to vary by division/union contract. You're going to have to see if a co-worker will let you borrow a copy of the union handbook if you're not a union member. You could try asking around at your store, but you may get different answers depending on who you talk to.
If you feel like being a scumbag, depending on your union contract you can pretty easily steal hours to get full time status. A "benefit" that certainly doesn't exist at most part-time work.
If you are a bagger or other front end person, quite often they have a bad turnover rate. This means you can become senior over a number of people in a shorter time than in most departments. If your contract allows, you may be able to take hours from those below you to get yourself up to forty hours a week. Keep that long enough and you get solid full time status.
While a dick move, I've heard of people working over five years and never getting full time through less jerky ways in spite of asking for it and training for various departments.
-- Edited by Stranger on Saturday 21st of May 2016 11:40:13 PM
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