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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's Not Just Wages. Retailers Are Mistreating Workers in a More Insidious Way. [View all]
The NYT has an article today on how major corporations are impoverishing workers, and its all legal. We need better worker protections.
Most of my co-workers had been at the store for years, but almost all of them were, like me, part time. This meant that the store had no obligation to give us a stable number of hours or to adhere to a weekly minimum. Some weeks wed be scheduled for as little as a single four-hour shift; other weeks wed be asked to do overnights and work as many as 39 hours (never 40, presumably because the company didnt want to come anywhere close to having to pay overtime).
The unpredictability of the hours made life difficult for my co-workers as much as, if not more than, the low pay did. On receiving a paycheck for a good weeks work, when theyd worked 39 hours, should they use the money to pay down debt? Or should they hold on to it in case the following week they were scheduled for only four hours and didnt have enough for food?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/19/opinion/part-time-workers-usa.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Wk0.hhzp._buRG3bIIl2j&smid=url-share