Its been a while since I made my last post several months ago. Partly because, I was under training for a higher position for the company which it took a lot of my blogging time to lagging- behind time. In other words I was literally very busy 24/7.
Now, I can spend some of my time blogging since eveybody knows that December is a No-Work Month. Not because it is a holiday for the company but because there IS NO inventory to be done on holiday seasons. Besides, it is also the best time when D411 can conduct leaders' meeting, make changes to policies, train future supervisors, hire new employees for the next year big blast, things like that.
There have been several changes that happened over the last 2 months or so. These changes, whether you like it or not are not so encouraging:
1. Travel Policy. The district now has abolished the travel stores policy on certain circumstances. It will only applies when the distance goes beyond 80 miles round trip OR when the district approves of the distance.
2. Break Time. Break time has been reduced to 10 minutes per break. Before, it used to be 15 minutes. This change has created some confusion and disappointment among hourly employees.
3. APH reconsidered. APH (Average Per Hour) has been resurrected to life. Before, it was not seriously taken into consideration since it was not an effective basis pay rate since all employees (both auditors and supervisors) fall short of this scheme. But now, it is being seriouly reconsidered. To assess one's hourly rate, an auditor or Team Lead must undergo a speed-testing process and whatever is the speed is, that would be the hourly rate.
4. Pay cut. Yes, you heard me right. There were few remnants of old-time RGIS employees here at D411. These employees have been in the company for 8 to 17 years of employment. And their hourly rate were basically as a direct result of their loyalty.
Some of them get between $14.00 to over 16.00 per hour. Since most of these employees have "grown" with the company (you know what I mean), most of them could no longer cope up with the APH thing.
So the district has devised a plan that anybody that exceeds the hourly rate cap would get a pay cut.
Will you agree with these changes?
I'm not sure where District 411 is, but I'm in District 207 and although it's not supposed to be known amongst the general employee base yet, we're about to get pay cut as well; I believe the target date is April 25th.
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