It's not that nobody wants to work!

[Georgiagranny]

It's that the come-on to work for XYZ company is that they pay $15hr or more. Once you're there? Fuggedabouddit! That's when you discover that you won't be scheduled for enough hours to pay the bills. Working just a few hours a week at $15/hr doesn't pay anybody's bills. Schedules aren't dependable, even when the employee specifies hours they're available, so getting another job or two or three isn't the answer, either.

I see this every day at my own job. I'm lucky, though, that I don't depend on income from my job to survive.

 

[Chet]

I once got a job in a unionized company and you had to be there for 60 days before you could get into the union and get a pay raise and benefits. We were let go before 60 days.

 

[Georgiagranny]

I once got a job in a unionized company and you had to be there for 60 days before you could get into the union and get a pay raise and benefits. We were let go before 60 days.

That figures. At our store, new employees have to work eight consecutive weeks at 40 hours to then be considered full time. It rarely happens. Benefits like health/life insurance, pension, tuition reimbursement, are only available to full-time employees. Not full time? Saves the company big $$.

 

[Pepper]

I never liked working, except at my own store.

 

[hollydolly]

It's that the come-on to work for XYZ company is that they pay $15hr or more. Once you're there? Fuggedabouddit! That's when you discover that you won't be scheduled for enough hours to pay the bills. Working just a few hours a week at $15/hr doesn't pay anybody's bills. Schedules aren't dependable, even when the employee specifies hours they're available, so getting another job or two or three isn't the answer, either.

I see this every day at my own job. I'm lucky, though, that I don't depend on income from my job to survive.

same here except the minimum wage is just over £10 and the cost of living is HUGE

 

[JaniceM]

Benefits like health/life insurance, pension, tuition reimbursement, are only available to full-time employees. Not full time? Saves the company big $$.

From what I've seen, that's the problem.
Companies hire many many more people than they actually need, so they can "get away with" forcing employees who need the jobs to settle for "a few hours here and a few hours there," which is certainly not ok for anyone who is self-supporting and especially not for people with families.

Since I started encountering this approach, I knew quite a few single adults, couples, and even couples with small children that had to take on roommates, and even a woman who was only able to keep her bills paid by selling blood on a regular basis.