Thread regarding Whole Foods Market Inc. layoffs

If wfm is/was cooking the books then won't it be just a matter of time before the IRS audits us?

My astl work 6 days all the time and definitely is at the store more than 55 hours a week.

lol i've also seen the exact same thing. our stl really didn't want to work a 6th shift so he had our pfds team leader come in for a shifty shift in the middle of his vacation. scumbag knows his tls work 6-7 shifts all the freakin time too.

there seriously needs to be some scheduling oversight from regional. obviously the stls can't handle it.

I have to agree with the last post usually tls are closing when there is no Need and rarely if ever does a salaried leadership member pick up a sixth shift. I have seen tls called in from vacation or pick up a 7th 4 hour shift instead of a salaried leader work one shift extra. In my store and region there is usually no admin labor so the teams pick up any shift that isn't a full 8 hour with no other leade ship present. So even if only one salaried member is scheuled a mid tls closed most nights and before they went away, the Tms like would open most days. And magically on mondays people are turning in time to move shifts to admin for shifty shifts in amounts equal to their labor misses.

We have one STL & 2 ASTL's at our store, but we have TL's scheduled to shift 5 out of 7 nights every single week. It's not a necessity at our location - store leadership just does not want to close. Since this shifty coverage is technically unnecessary, the teams who are picking up the extra labor are loosing $$ in the long run & have a right to complain.

Moving shifty hours to admin is the correct thing to do if a team leader is shifting. There is nothing wrong with that and no one is going to be written up for it.

At the very least $1 or the most $10 a service hour is owed to every team member below the ATL level! They just gave a 'golden-parachute' worth $10 million to the outgoing CEO, during whose tenure the company lost more than 40 percent of its value. WFM has more than enough cash to splash. Just look around you!

I was talking about the week not ending at midnight.

Not really an oversight if store leadership was asking them to clock out so labor and overtime would look better. This was cheating team members out of overtime pay. . When it accidentally happened when an employee missed an in punch or took a long offsite break during an overnight shift, that was not intentional and usually caught and corrected once the team member noticed a missing shift from their pay...

Thanks! That's good to know. Seems like an oversight on WF's part because it's beneficial to the employee and I never give the employer the benefit of the doubt.

New. Week does start on Monday, but your entire shift is considered to be on the day you clocked originally. So if you work a 10 hour shift that started on Sunday and clocked out for and hour lunch the whole shift should be sunday. People were clocking out at 1159pm and then filling a time sheet for monday or clocking back in later to cause part of the shift to hit Monday , which is a gig policy infraction

Under falsification of payroll. It can still happen accidentally if an overnight team member clocks out for a long break or misses their in punch n Sunday and the tl doesn't catch it.

I thought the new week started on Monday.

Maybe not all stores in the sw, but i can tell you the one store labor stores were moving shifty hours to the salaried stl codes cheating tls out of gain sharing for at least 6 months before someone reported it. as well i know several stls who have corrective action for this in their files for doing it in the past. Back when inventory was done on Sundays a lot of stores asked tms to punch out at midnight to limit OT. Several stores were reported and from what i understand team member pay was recalculated. Retro pay for pay increases were sometimes done as a bonus instead or retro pay, taxing the tm at a higher rate and usually paying out less, some times just because the bonus entry was easier or because the dialog was so past due the labor miss would have been too large. The sw has done a lot to reign this back in in the last year but it did still happen.

No it doesn't......

I'm a former Astl and I assure you this goes on in every store in SW region

I've been in MW MA and Florida, and I've encountered it in each place.

i want my gain sharing, hours worked off the clock for 2 decades and all the time and minutes the store used calling me on my time off about work . lets call it $70,000 at the low side .

So how does a team member not with the company anymore go about this?? I'm certain they owe everyone who's worked there.

*roll call

Yup...let's take a room call. SW

Every store does this. In some way shape or form some cases less extreme but every store