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celtichop74

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? DE

My husband has been working for a retail company as a department lead for about 8 years as a full time employee.He was interviewed and hired by the district manager at 40 hours a week.The company says 37 hours or more is considered full time.Fine.Over the years his hours every week have been anywhere from 38-40 hours.He just found out yesterday that his hours for next week will be 29 hours.He only found out from checking his schedule. Nothing was said to him by any of the management team.When he tried to find out what was going on all the managers were unreachable for one reason or another.Trying to reach HR is near impossible.We were just wondering,can they just cut his hours like this?Is there anyone else we should be trying to reach or some other action we should be trying to take?Any advice would be really helpful.We've never encountered anything like this.What is the name of your state?
 


mlane58

Senior Member
What is the name of your state? DE

My husband has been working for a retail company as a department lead for about 8 years as a full time employee.He was interviewed and hired by the district manager at 40 hours a week.The company says 37 hours or more is considered full time.Fine.Over the years his hours every week have been anywhere from 38-40 hours.He just found out yesterday that his hours for next week will be 29 hours.He only found out from checking his schedule. Nothing was said to him by any of the management team.When he tried to find out what was going on all the managers were unreachable for one reason or another.Trying to reach HR is near impossible.We were just wondering,can they just cut his hours like this?Is there anyone else we should be trying to reach or some other action we should be trying to take?Any advice would be really helpful.We've never encountered anything like this.What is the name of your state?
Unless hubbey has a bona fide contract or is part of a collective bargaining agreement, the employer isn't obligated to guarentee him or anyone else 40 hours, 38 hours or even 29 hours a week.
 

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