The Woolworths Thread (23 Viewers)

[iMatthew]

I want to get out of my SDA membership, what do I do?

Leave a note for your office cashier and say that you want to stop payments. That's what I did and I haven't paid a cent since.

 

[Jolyon]

How were everyones Christmas trading?

I did 5:30-5:30 Friday and 5:30-6 Saturday. Killed me when we opened the doors Christmas Eve to about 100 customers. Every register opened from 7:30am till I got pushed out the door at 6 by the CSTM. So glad it is only once a year. Made 2.6 million Christmas week though. We did well!

 

[powlmao]

Made 2mil. Seventh highest for big w

 

[britto89]

The online rosters seem to be blank again. I'm guessing because no one ran macs yesterday. or because slightly different macs were run this morning due to the prepull of wages.

Seriously, they need a single programme, not one which sends it's information to another one, in a really inefficient way.

I agree. There are too many HR/Payroll related apps but it is bound to happen in an organisation the size of woolworths. i'm just glad ISIS consolidated a lot of my day to day stuff.

 

[Craven]

Someone clear something up for me in the EBA - so we've just had an substituted holiday (Christmas Day subbed to 27th Dec)... all the clauses regarding public holidays in the EBA then refer only to the substituted holiday, correct?

 

[powlmao]

Christmas day was public holiday but wasn't subbed.

26th was boxing day and anpublic holiday was subbed to the 27th


Hence the 25, 26 and 27 were public hOlidays

 

[BSammy]

to be fair the 25th is a special case.

there are other clauses that apply to it that don't to normal PH or other substituted PH

 

[Craven]

But excluding the clause that says if you had to work Xmas day (not applicable in our store) you still get penalty rates regardless, all other clauses don't apply since 25th is not a PH due to the substitution?

What about my case.. Salaried. Didn't work Monday as we didn't trade but working Tuesday-Sat so my 40 hours and one toil day. Should I get two since I'm working an extra 8hr day that I normally wouldn't work?

 

[bensneddon]

But excluding the clause that says if you had to work Xmas day (not applicable in our store) you still get penalty rates regardless, all other clauses don't apply since 25th is not a PH due to the substitution?

What about my case.. Salaried. Didn't work Monday as we didn't trade but working Tuesday-Sat so my 40 hours and one toil day. Should I get two since I'm working an extra 8hr day that I normally wouldn't work?

I could be wrong, but I though salaried staff were employed under common law contracts, and are covered by the general industry award, and not the EBA?

 

[Craven]

I'm not saying because of the PH I should get another one but because of my roster being changed. We're entitled to the day off with pay for a PH, so that was Monday, 8 hrs. But then I'm working 40 hours still this week so I should get another day off as well as the toil for working on Tues PH... That's not really an EBA thing, that's just common sense, like a 4/6 roster.

 

[bensneddon]

I'm not saying because of the PH I should get another one but because of my roster being changed. We're entitled to the day off with pay for a PH, so that was Monday, 8 hrs. But then I'm working 40 hours still this week so I should get another day off as well as the toil for working on Tues PH... That's not really an EBA thing, that's just common sense, like a 4/6 roster.

It might not be an EBA thing, but all this kinda stuff is covered by some IR instrument...

The 10 minimum standards of employment (National Employment Standards) are outlined in the Fair Work Act 2009.

One of the entitlements relates to public holidays:

Public holidays - a paid day off on a public holiday, except where reasonably requested to work.

At Woolworths, my understanding is that if your day off falls on a public holiday, you are entitled to a TOIL day. I'm fairly sure this is just goodwill, and they are under no legal obligation to provide this.

Disclaimer - I am not an IR expert.

 

[nanakid12]

How were everyones Christmas trading?

I did 5:30-5:30 Friday and 5:30-6 Saturday. Killed me when we opened the doors Christmas Eve to about 100 customers. Every register opened from 7:30am till I got pushed out the door at 6 by the CSTM. So glad it is only once a year. Made 2.6 million Christmas week though. We did well!

We were 7am-6pm, we're usually 8am-5pm. It got so freaking busy, all of the trained supervisors were rostered on (but as operators), along with every single junior operator that we had for staff. For a change, all 8 of our big registers were open, 2/4 express, and both smokeshop. Obviously it had its quiet periods, but apparently we made around 50,000-60,000 that day, which is usually what we make in a week I think? (I am probly very wrong with this)

At least now that it's over, the customers won't be stressed and will actually talk to me nicely instead of being rude.

And then Christmas-holiday on Tuesday was pretty quiet, I got sent home early because they were way under plan. Meh

 

[iMatthew]

We were 7am-6pm, we're usually 8am-5pm. It got so freaking busy, all of the trained supervisors were rostered on (but as operators), along with every single junior operator that we had for staff. For a change, all 8 of our big registers were open, 2/4 express, and both smokeshop. Obviously it had its quiet periods, but apparently we made around 50,000-60,000 that day, which is usually what we make in a week I think? (I am probly very wrong with this)

At least now that it's over, the customers won't be stressed and will actually talk to me nicely instead of being rude.

And then Christmas-holiday on Tuesday was pretty quiet, I got sent home early because they were way under plan. Meh

Correct me if I am wrong, but can't they only send you home on mutual agreement? They tried doing that last New Years day because it was so quiet but everyone refused.
We did approx ~190 which is what we planned. All express open, all mains open, two in smokeshop and two in self serve (that was a huge relief for self serve). Was so nice to have plenty of staff on!

Can't wait for Sunday, supervision 1300 - 2200 at $52/hr yay.

 

[iMatthew]

Do we get penalty rates for New Years Eve or just New Years day?

 

[Jolyon]

Do we get penalty rates for New Years Eve or just New Years day?

New Years Eve is not a public holiday so only New Years Day

 

[Aquawhite]

And then the Monday is too.

 

[Jolyon]

And then the Monday is too.

My SSO said if you work both you only get penalty rates on one. But I would not go off what she says. She has been wrong in the past.

 

[iMatthew]

My SSO said if you work both you only get penalty rates on one. But I would not go off what she says. She has been wrong in the past.

She could be right actually, it's been like that in the past for these two holidays I believe. It's most likely because it's an additional day off for New Years day, all the full timers seem to be working that day, so perhaps they're just going about it normally.

 

[Jolyon]

She could be right actually, it's been like that in the past for these two holidays I believe. It's most likely because it's an additional day off for New Years day, all the full timers seem to be working that day, so perhaps they're just going about it normally.

Yeah, well I am working both of them starting at 6am with no penalty rates. The bad side of being on a salary

 

[powlmao]

How much is your salary thougj