kcwillia37
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Washington
I’ve worked for this corporation for over 4 years now since they first opened for business. I was hired on as a Full Time employee. They consider 30 hours to be full time. I’ve received medical, dental and vacation benefits.
I work in the food and beverage department for this establishment. There are two restaurants. One is open 7am-11am (buffet), 5pm-10pm (menu), the other is 11am-11pm. We have approx 40 servers, whom which majority have an established restaurant they work at as well as hours. Meaning the lunch servers don’t work breakfast or dinner. Dinner servers don’t work breakfast type thing.
I am probably 1 out of maybe 5 of all the servers who is experienced and can work both restaurants, any times since I’ve been there since day one.
I spent the first 2 years working dinner shifts only with occasionally picking up breakfast and lunch shifts when someone called out and they had no one to cover.
I switched from Dinner to breakfast two years ago and have been scheduled and working solely breakfast shifts since then, again with the occasional pickup of other shifts when they needed.
We are a family amusement park where majority of our clientele are families with children. We have certain downtimes throughout the year. Which I’ve gotten used to over the years.
When we are busy I can be scheduled 5-6 days a week receiving approx. 25hrs. When we are slow, I can get scheduled 1-2 days a week and only get 10hrs if im lucky.
There has been talk here and there over the years about if we don’t maintain our hours we could lose our benefits. But the periods Ive gone through being scheduled 10hrs a week for a month or two straight has never affected my status.
So today my manager informed me (coming from HR), she is dropping my status of full time to part time because I haven’t maintained 30hrs a week for the last 14 weeks. I will lose all my benefits at the end of this month. I never received any notice or warning about this from my management or HR prior.
I have no control over how much I’m schedule. I brought it to the head of HR today the fact that there are only a handful of Full Time employees, the rest are Part Time, and it doesn’t help that the P/T employees are being scheduled as many hours as F/T. If there was some policy enforced that Full Time employees received available hours and shifts first and the P/T employees got what remained available, I wouldn’t be in the position I am now. The head of HR told me that she advised my manager to do this, but she can’t “patrol” how my manager schedules.
Now I don’t know what to do from here. I feel like this is really unfair. I really depended on my medical insurance for my medical conditions and medications (that have absolutely no effect on my job in any way).
I checked today and it will cost me double the pay to get medical insurance outside of work, and still doesn’t even compare to what I was getting.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Also, Does it make any difference if some of my other full time coworkers did not meet the require hours as well, and their statuses were not dropped and they did not lose their benefits??
I’ve worked for this corporation for over 4 years now since they first opened for business. I was hired on as a Full Time employee. They consider 30 hours to be full time. I’ve received medical, dental and vacation benefits.
I work in the food and beverage department for this establishment. There are two restaurants. One is open 7am-11am (buffet), 5pm-10pm (menu), the other is 11am-11pm. We have approx 40 servers, whom which majority have an established restaurant they work at as well as hours. Meaning the lunch servers don’t work breakfast or dinner. Dinner servers don’t work breakfast type thing.
I am probably 1 out of maybe 5 of all the servers who is experienced and can work both restaurants, any times since I’ve been there since day one.
I spent the first 2 years working dinner shifts only with occasionally picking up breakfast and lunch shifts when someone called out and they had no one to cover.
I switched from Dinner to breakfast two years ago and have been scheduled and working solely breakfast shifts since then, again with the occasional pickup of other shifts when they needed.
We are a family amusement park where majority of our clientele are families with children. We have certain downtimes throughout the year. Which I’ve gotten used to over the years.
When we are busy I can be scheduled 5-6 days a week receiving approx. 25hrs. When we are slow, I can get scheduled 1-2 days a week and only get 10hrs if im lucky.
There has been talk here and there over the years about if we don’t maintain our hours we could lose our benefits. But the periods Ive gone through being scheduled 10hrs a week for a month or two straight has never affected my status.
So today my manager informed me (coming from HR), she is dropping my status of full time to part time because I haven’t maintained 30hrs a week for the last 14 weeks. I will lose all my benefits at the end of this month. I never received any notice or warning about this from my management or HR prior.
I have no control over how much I’m schedule. I brought it to the head of HR today the fact that there are only a handful of Full Time employees, the rest are Part Time, and it doesn’t help that the P/T employees are being scheduled as many hours as F/T. If there was some policy enforced that Full Time employees received available hours and shifts first and the P/T employees got what remained available, I wouldn’t be in the position I am now. The head of HR told me that she advised my manager to do this, but she can’t “patrol” how my manager schedules.
Now I don’t know what to do from here. I feel like this is really unfair. I really depended on my medical insurance for my medical conditions and medications (that have absolutely no effect on my job in any way).
I checked today and it will cost me double the pay to get medical insurance outside of work, and still doesn’t even compare to what I was getting.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Also, Does it make any difference if some of my other full time coworkers did not meet the require hours as well, and their statuses were not dropped and they did not lose their benefits??
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