Reply #9: and if a company can limit workers to a few less than full time hours [View All]

[SoCalDem]

they can sometimes evade the "benefits" altogether.

It used to be 40 hours was a standard work week for full time 8x5
Anymore, lots of companies pay benefits based on less than 40,because they offer few "fulltime" jobs, but still must attract good people, so they SAY they pay benefits to "some part-timers", and base it on say 35 hours. The rub is this... For instance, where I worked once, if an employee worker 35 hr+ for 4 consecutive weeks, they were automatically pushed into the "fulltime" rolls of the company, and were then eligible for all kinds of "goodies" that part-timers were given.

so.. they would watch the schedules like a hawk, and schedules would look something like this:

wk 1....38 hrs (no overtime under 40 hrs)
wk 2....40 hrs (still no overtime)
wk 3....39 hrs
wk 4....30 hrs

On wk 4 all management were told that they were NOT to call this person in, no matter how badly they might be needed.

and the way the "pay" week was broken down, you could sometimes be worked up to 11 days straight without triggering any overtime.