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SCOTUS let's them.
Wasn't Hillary on the Board of Wal-Mart? Does she remember it?
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I can pretend with the best of them!!
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From Overlawyered
Given that the average tip rate is $1.71 an hour, this would mean that "shift supervisors" would get less than those with fewer responsibilities. And as for late hours, when the "shift supervisor" is the only barrista on duty, they'll have to prohibit tipping altogether.
Starbucks is caught in a cleft stick - on the one hand, supervisors can't split tips with the employees. However, if they aren't really managers, they are entitled to overtime pay rather than a fixed "salary."
They get about $1 or $1.50 an hour more than baristas for the privilege of being able to open the store safe, tell people when to take their breaks and lunches, and hold the key that lets them override errors or give refunds on the cash registers. They are not true managers. They spend better than 90% of their time doing the exact same job as baristas do. They've earned their tips.
The salaried managers are a different story, but they weren't in on the tips anyway.
On December 15, 2008 she returned to work as scheduled. While at work, the District Manager, Pam Thompson, was at the store with the store manager, David Ramirez, and told Heather to take the rest of the day off because she was obviously still traumatized by the event. However, this was after they had told Heather that she violated company policy by not having the doors locked after the posted closing time of 10:00pm on the night of the robbery. They also told her that the furniture outside should have been put away ten minutes prior to closing. Along with that, they also told her that no trash should be put outside after dusk. Heather inquired as to how that is possible when David had told store partners not to put away furniture until after 10:00pm. Not only that, but there were only two employees, including Heather, working at the store after 9:40pm. The employee who left at 9:40pm was a minor and could not work any later lest he violated company policy of maximum hours of work for minors. Heather repeatedly called and texted her manager David and her assistant manager, Regina Anderson, over her concern of having only two people closing, both of which are women, and still having to close the store and performing all closing duties. Neither manager would come out and help because they were busy with their families. Additionally, there were still 4 to 5 customers at 10:00pm ordering drinks. So how is it possible to close a store, clean up and lock doors prior to the 10:00pm closing time? The surveillance footage can show this. However, Heather not wanting to cause a scene left for the day.
Heather returned to work at her scheduled time today, December 17, 2008 at 11:00am. Her manager fired her today for violating company safety and security policy. The paperwork that was given basically states that it was her fault that the store was robbed. It had nothing to do with changing policies to suit each individual store; managers not scheduling the proper amount of people for running the store. Let me add that this store is in a strip mall area that is dark and at their closing time, they are the only store open.
I cannot understand a company firing someone for having their store robbed. Why are there no night managers on the premises? How can one get fired if they are complying to a robber's demands while at gunpoint? Are you supposed to kick all remaining customers out because its 10:00pm and you need clean up? What's to say that if they finished cleaning up that they still would not have been robbed as they did the final lock up of the store? It's seems as if Starbuck's is looking for a scapegoat for their inconsistent policies and regulations and chose a shift supervisor because she didn't close up on time. Please let me know if I am wrong for thinking that this company and their policy enforcements are construed and inconsistent?
Can someone give this some press coverage?
Thank you,
Paul and De Anna Hernandez
Concerned parents of Heather Louviere