Macy's - Management still wants to mess with our PTOs
Our Union Bargaining Team met with Management for the first time on Monday, May 10 to deliver our initial proposals for the new Union contract.
Some of what the Union proposed was:
Language to protect our vacations, personal days, and other benefits when there is another health emergency like there has been with COVID-19
Making sure that compensated hours and short-term disability benefits count towards qualifying hours for health insurance and FMLA leaves
Fixing the MLK PTO problem by making it permanent for us to use as we choose
Macy’s also made some of their initial proposals, many of which takes us in the wrong direction:
The Employer wants to delete language that lets us take our PTOs for whatever reason we need.
Macy’s wants to eliminate attendance credits entirely and replace it with a “Reliability Indicator.” If you are asking yourself, “What’s that?” so are we, but it doesn’t sound good.
They want to change the definition of a late shift from one ending at 7 PM to one ending at 8 PM, which would mean more shifts at night would be required.
“Many of Management’s proposals are not appropriate for employees to have worked through a deadly pandemic and shown Macy’s loyalty.”
— Candice Hemphill