This is a message for all team leaders who have not been scheduled according to their block without consenting to changes in days or shifts, or who have not received their monthly three-day weekends without consenting to forfeit them. We are working with a team of attorneys to get compensation for all those affected. We have been successful in the past in fighting for those associates who were working through their breaks and not receiving lunch breaks. If you believe you should be included in this case, comment here, you can remain anonymous for now. Communication will come out with formal paperwork eventually. We are trying to guage interest ahead of the suit. This will most likely take place in the middle of 2022.
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Happens to everyone, not just team leads
I can’t wait. I have screenshots of my schedule of every week for the last 5 years. This could get ugly.
Last year, one of our fresh managers was terminated after too many associates complained up the ladder about this very same thing. Use the open door, it works. Just hope you don’t get a worse manager after they terminate yours. Good luck.
I’m confused…..associates signed contracts with set schedules and three day weekends? I don’t believe hourly associates sign anything but a job offer and that did not include a set schedule. You people are smoking crack. Furthermore, if you obtain my personal information to send me bogus lawsuit propaganda then be prepared for counter suits.
Have never received my 3 day weekends. I’m also a key carrier and by the time I’m able to click in, between associates filtering in and going to the back to open receiving, I have to do a time adjustment. Maybe if Kath McKlay did her job problems would get fixed but I don’t think she leaves her house.
This needs to include ALL associates, not just team leads! Definitely for age and race discrimination also!
This happens at our Sam’s club
May want to reed the fine print of your job description 😉. They can change it based on company needs.
I wish you luck and hope you file a class action lawsuit against this company. Our club is awful about scheduling. Yesterday they changed the front end's schedule, again cutting hours and booting people off the next day schedule. These people need to pay their bills. I thought this was against the policy to do last minute changes. On top of that some PT people have been worked 40 hours a week on the front and then their hours get cut to lower their average hours worked. Years ago if you worked a certain amount of hours for a 12 week period, they had to make you FT. Is that still the case?
One Team lead always gets a three day weekend. I’ve only gotten one three day weekend since the start of block schedule.
I'm still stumped on this supposed 3 days off .. never even heard of it. Definitely never happened for any of us in our club.
I hope this is real. Our managers schedule leads whenever they want. I haven’t had a 3 day weekend in almost 6 months. I’m not going to quit over it, but it sure would be nice to get what I was promised when I took the job last year. I’d rather have a set schedule than be in a leadership position though.
You should also look into having to check the exterior of the building while off the clock(opening key carrying leads). This is part of asset protection email sent out this past week. If anything was to happen they would say you were off the clock as you have not had a chance to punch in yet. We open the building off the clock.. .
I would be interested in learning why employees are sent to other club areas to fill staffing voids, but not paid that higher rate
First, I am not an attorney, I do not represent Walmart Corporation in any capacity.
Policy states scheduling can be changed for the needs of business, i.e. Company. As you are claiming to be a group of attorneys, what happens when the associate continues to work after their schedules no longer coincide with their "Terms of Employment". If the associate continues to work, then the associate accepts the new scheduling, correct? The time of objection would have been at the onset of changes, correct? All associates are employed on an "at will" basis according to the Wire. What about "Right to Work" states where you basically only have the right to quit.
Any associate that falsify time records has violated company policy including Federal Labor Laws, and subject to immediate termination.
As the old saying goes "you are about to poke the sleeping bear", be ready for repercussions. Just saying, be very careful.
Don’t worry. Once we get everything in order, this suit will apply to all those current, and former employees since day 1 of the block. You all signed a contract agreeing to your schedules and as I’ve heard from several others, that was changed originally. If you were in a production role, you were initially supposed to work 6-2:30 and have set days off. That got changed once. Now as we understand, several of you are being denied your contractually obligated three-day weekends off. We will fight for each and every one of you. We will mail out info in 2022, as we have secured payroll and job code information today. Be patient.
I stepped down due to this. Would like more info.
Breaks, what breaks??? Half our lunches are keyed in to avoid getting coached for "not taking them" so the company doesn't get fined. And what 3 day weekends are you talking about???? I work 2, 6 day weeks a month and 1 5 day. I get 1 weekend a month. Just Saturday Sunday, tho in the past when we weren't on block for a year or so, I never got a weekend off. Only started getting those recently. But have to work 6 days to pay for it because our weeks run sat- Friday. I don't know about any 3 days off. It's not worth having 2 days off in a row at any point when you have to work 6 day weeks. I'm always burnt out mentally.
And for those of you negative commenters, I'm sorry you feel YOUR leads suck or are lazy but I assure you that is not the case at all clubs. Plenty of us get used, abused and drove into the ground. And definitely not compensated. Anymore we make $1-2 more than regular associates, any raises we earned from time served was taken away with the MINIMUM wage increase so we make the same as new comers we are expected to train, pick up slack for those who don't work and do salaried management jobs. We are told we are hourly management yet get paid cr-p for it, and take the brunt of everything. So I am sorry if this isn't the case in your club, but it definitely is in others.
Oh no. U didn’t get your regular days off. Bet the world is going to end lol. How do softies like this become a team lead 🤦🏼♂️
I left the company recently after many years. Happened all the time. I would have been interested. Look into the age discrimination also.
Definitely. Happens all the time to me.