Some employees have been moved from salary to hourly recently. Is there a difference in benefits/pension/bonus etc for these employees? What would be the reason for that change?
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hourly employees at hcsc have full benefits. benefits differ slightly for bargaining unit employees but that only applies to a small subset.
Making someone hourly can also mean a reason for saving money by no longer offering you benefits like paid time off, insurance, etc
@16g Just don’t work off the clock. It’s not a difficult concept yo grasp.
@165 Troll
@166 We did. Fell on deaf ears. They don't care.
@123 submit an ethics complaint. Anonymous if you want. That’s the right thing to do here.
If you’re d-mb enough to work off the clock as an hourly employee then you deserve the misery I guess.
An hourly employee I know in another department has worked overtime off the clock. They were overwhelmed with work and the supervisor wouldn’t approve ot or hire additional staff. It wasn’t mandatory, but that was the only way to get caught up.
If you're an hourly employee and being expected to work more than 8 hours for no additional pay, I would stop immediately and carefully document any communication you receive going forward suggesting you could be subject to discipline for not doing so.
@e8 We're still working more than 8 hours to keep up with the ever-increasing, ridiculous "special projects," same as when we were salaried, but OT is not authorized, so we don't request it. "Leadership" keeps coming up with big ideas that make our work lives more miserable when they know we are down 5 people in our department. Unconsionable.
@md It absolutely and unfortunately did happen. Su-ks.
@md it did happen. Some former Cigna employees were made hourly from salary
I'll take things that never happened for $5000, Alex.
Maybe by changing an employee from salary to hourly means that they can cut your hours to save money. Don't know if they can do that to a union worker. It's sure to benefit HCSC, not the employee.
HR botched this categorization during the acquisition.
It only impacts how your time is tracked and job responsibilities.
Not bonus
Generally speaking, the major difference would be in bonus, where salaried worked workers or "professionals" and higher would have a higher percentage target for their API bonus payout in March.
Benefits cost is based on your annual pay, regardless if hourly or salaried as I recall.
@a1 no changes in job or role
I thought the exempt v non-exempt was controlled by federal law? Did people’s responsibilities also change with the switch?