As a new employee, my schedule has changed week to week where I dont find out the schedule until ONE DAY before, sometimes literally HOURS BEFORE my next shift. Ive worked 7:30an shift, 9:30am, now 12:30pm without prior notification.
Is this typical? To let an employee know less than 24 hours of their schedule for the next 7 days? No rhyme or reason as to the days off, shift changes? How can anyone schedule Dr appointments, family time, other aspects of their life? Ive never in my life seen a company schedule employees like this. As a 60 yr old, do I have a right to say I physically cant keep doing this unless regular hours are in place with notification of change in schedule at least one week in advance??
Is this a tactic the company uses for those on probation as a new employee to see who is the most fit before Union membership kicks in?
The schedule for the upcoming week is suppose to be posted by noon on Friday. Changes can be made up until sometime on Saturday. Some stores it's 12:00 PM. Others it's as late as 6:00 PM. After that, your schedule can't be changes unless it's mutually agreed upon by both you and management. In other words, they can't change the schedule once the work week has started. With this new MyTime scheduling system, you have to put in requests about three weeks in advance. So it really doesn't give you a chance to plan things on the spur of the moment.
Contact your union rep 48 hrs notice for shift changes. One of my locations did this to me and would pencil me in but fail to inform me. We had multiple schedule variations: the front end, esced, the break room and manager office. Unless you checked all three you were f'd. All too often they'd contradict each other and half the time they'd write you up for missing a shift. It got to the point where I asked my union rep and he wrote a grievance for me for them to end this b.s. They had to change all shift misses or late arrivals to clerical error.
I'd highly suggest for you to contact your union rep. They can contact the store and scold them and force them to stop.
