2aguy
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- Jul 19, 2014
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Yep....artificially increasing the wages of employees...to get good press and feel good about yourself, always ends up hurting the little guy.....
Whole Foods Adopts $15 Minimum Wage, Then Starts Slashing Workers' Hours 'Significantly'
The employees, speaking on condition of anonymity "for fear of retaliation," revealed to the outlet that they've seen an average of about a 30% reduction in hours per week for part-timers and about a 10% reduction for full-timers.
An Illinois-based worker told The Guardian, "My hours went from 30 to 20 a week," after the $15 minimum wage hike.
The employee "explained that once the $15 minimum wage was enacted, part-time employee hours at their store were cut from an average of 30 to 21 hours a week, and full-time employees saw average hours reduced from 37.5 hours to 34.5 hours," The Guardian reports. "The worker provided schedules from 1 November to the end of January 2019, showing hours for workers in their department significantly decreased as the department’s percentage of the entire store labor budget stayed relatively the same."
The employee says the company expects workers to accomplish their goals faster so their hours can be cut to balance the cost of the wage increases. The employee provided the outlet an internal email from a department manager saying the slashed shifts were a "direct result of guidance from our regional team."
And it's not just in Illinois. A Maryland-based employee told the paper their regional manager has ordered that all full-time employees suffer a four-hour reduction per week to 36 hours, making the raise "pointless" because people are actually "losing more than they gained" as a result of fewer hours worked. An Oregon-based Whole Foods employee cited a similar policy of reducing full-timers from 40 to just 36 or 38 hours per week.
Whole Foods Adopts $15 Minimum Wage, Then Starts Slashing Workers' Hours 'Significantly'
The employees, speaking on condition of anonymity "for fear of retaliation," revealed to the outlet that they've seen an average of about a 30% reduction in hours per week for part-timers and about a 10% reduction for full-timers.
An Illinois-based worker told The Guardian, "My hours went from 30 to 20 a week," after the $15 minimum wage hike.
The employee "explained that once the $15 minimum wage was enacted, part-time employee hours at their store were cut from an average of 30 to 21 hours a week, and full-time employees saw average hours reduced from 37.5 hours to 34.5 hours," The Guardian reports. "The worker provided schedules from 1 November to the end of January 2019, showing hours for workers in their department significantly decreased as the department’s percentage of the entire store labor budget stayed relatively the same."
The employee says the company expects workers to accomplish their goals faster so their hours can be cut to balance the cost of the wage increases. The employee provided the outlet an internal email from a department manager saying the slashed shifts were a "direct result of guidance from our regional team."
And it's not just in Illinois. A Maryland-based employee told the paper their regional manager has ordered that all full-time employees suffer a four-hour reduction per week to 36 hours, making the raise "pointless" because people are actually "losing more than they gained" as a result of fewer hours worked. An Oregon-based Whole Foods employee cited a similar policy of reducing full-timers from 40 to just 36 or 38 hours per week.
