#hourly workers

[pennzance]

I know this is a silly question to ask in America in 2025 but, uh...

Hourly fast food workers? Y'all okay?

[xiaomao-ai-wo]

I may be discouraged from leaning or goofing off on the job. But you can be damn sure I feel no guilt taking a dump on company time.

[diannelamerc]

ARGH! What is it with companies and special sick leave policies?

All part- and full-time hourly team members at Whole Foods Market stores and facilities will receive an additional $2 per hour as part of the announcement Amazon made this week.

Additionally, all part- and full-time hourly team members at Whole Foods Market stores and facilities will receive double their regular hourly base rate of pay for every overtime hour worked in a workweek from March 16 through May 3, 2020.

These are both awesome for people who need money and who may have others in the household laid off. Go them!

All Whole Foods Market team members who are placed in quarantine or have a confirmed case of COVID-19 have access to the two weeks’ paid time off related to coronavirus that was announced last week.

No, no, *NO*!

I'm not actually ragging on Whole Foods/Amazon here--In the past week I've seen the exact same wording/restrictions from Target, DoorDash, and pretty much any company that has my email address.

The problem is this:

--Absolutely *Key* Public Heath Necessity: Stay Home If You Feel At All Sick!

--Every one of these sick leave policies: You will be paid *only* if you have a confirmed (i.e., tested) case of COVID-19.

a) What tests? Even doctor-verified cases are still having trouble getting officially tested.

b) To ease strain both on tests as they come out and on medical workers in general, people are being begged to *not* get tested unless they are v. close to a confirmed case [which, so far, is as rare as being "officially quarantined"], or unless they start getting really sick. 

Most people's cases are mild to begin with, and there is absolutely no treatment a medical professional can offer you other than the standard ones for the flu (stay hydrated, rest, etc.). It also might just be a standard flu/cold. 

Which leaves all these non-sick-time workers in the same damned quandary the company's ostensibly trying to alleviate: Come in mildly sick or skip wages? Especially since it's likely someone else in the household has been laid off.

So for the public health of everyone: Stay home if you start feeling sick--just in case.

For your own financial health: Go in unless you can somehow *prove* you have COVID-19 specifically. Because otherwise you’re going to be SOL.

Companies are either too worried people will try to abuse it for any cold/flu (like it's a good idea for them to have to come in with that anyway) or they're not thinking at all. You see it in every single notice like this. It's driving me up the wall!

In all honesty? If I were hourly and paycheck to paycheck? The $ bonus would encourage me to come in if at all physically possible, especially since the possibility of ever getting the sick leave is realistically so remote. :(

[tomgroenfeldt]

Helping Employees Avoid Late Fees, Bounced Checks And Pay Day Lending With Their Own Money

Helping Employees Avoid Late Fees, Bounced Checks And Pay Day Lending With Their Own Money

PayActiv gives workers access to the money they have earned without requiring them to wait two weeks for their paycheck, said Safwan Shah, the company’s CEO. It advances the money and then is reimbursed by the employer when checks or direct deposits are issued.

“It delivers access to affordable financial services at scale to a financially stressed community. We have two guard rails that are…

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[theskyimunder]

Be nice to retail employees, they have missed family gatherings, tearful goodbyes and amazing memories just to serve you.

This has been a PSA.

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Netflix Improves Part-Time Parental Leave Policy

The popular streaming service brings better parental leave policies to its hourly workers.

Netflix offers unlimited leave to f/t employees, and better policies for its hourly workers. Big victory for feminist advocates here.

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Junction Will Add 800 White-Collar Jobs

Gallery will add 800 numerous salaried workers this hour by comparison with the 2,200 white-collar workers the automaker thought it would need to adjust to growing demand for new vehicles.<\p>

Ford continues to grapple with a self-consistent problem: how in contemplation of make sufficiently cars when the industry is on pace to sell similarly than 15 million reserve vehicles in the U.S. this year.<\p>

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The Dearborn-based automaker struggled to keep up curtains year on what occasion sales rebounded to 14.5 million, according in order to Autodata. Reef added 400,000 units of twin entering the second half of 2012 and is adding 200,000 more this year as well whereas reducing the summer shutdown at many of its plants.<\p>

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Ford expects to hire 3,000 salaried workers inlet inventory this year, articulated spokeswoman Kristina Adamski.<\p>

The salaried headcount was 27,826 at the end of the first quarter, spoken spokeswoman Angela Bianchi, until now up excepting 27,488 at the end of 2012. As to year-end, in which time it exceeds 30,000, it will represent a nice recovery from in reverse 25,000 in 2009 in accordance with huge layoffs but the company is still leaner as compared with it was prior to the industry downturn.<\p>

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The capacity crunch progressive Southwesterly America, even with all the additional shifts, has led to reports Ford is being ceasing Fiesta production in Mexico for the next generation of the subcompact car and consolidating assembly passage Thailand. Hinrichs said a decision has not yet been made and declined to provide make for picture relative to vehicle plans.<\p>

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