Can you choose your work hours at Publix?

Answer 1

If your manager is trying to force you to work outside your availability and you are a part timer, go to your local Human Resources representative. The fact that you are part time is non negotiable and you are not obligated to work outside your availability. There are employees within the company who have never been full time and have been with the company for many years.

In order for you to make a complaint against your manager, you need to have filled out an availability chart and have it on file. The number posted in the break room for anonymous discrimination and harassment calls can be used if you wish to call attention to your manager's activities anonymously. However, if yours is the only complaint, the Human Resources rep might not find your cause. It might be better to speak to the HR rep on an individual basis. This number is posted right under the District Manager's number on the "Open Door Policy" poster in the break room.

Publix supports all it's employees, from the part time baggers to management, and realizes that sometimes it is merely a misunderstanding between employees. There are times that management can forget responsibilities of individual employees; this is the reason for the numbers being posted so prominitely in employee areas. Publix tries to make the working environment pleasant for all employees and fully supports all worker's rights.

See your employee handbook for all options about proper proceedures to iniate a complaint.

Answer 2

Publix does not expect any employee to work hours that the employee has not agreed to. In other words, if your schedule is restricted to certain hours, the manager must abide by those restrictions. Should the need arise that you are needed outside of those hours, the manager must ask before he assigns those hours to you.

On the flip side, you must submit and sign a statement of availability form. It is in two parts so that you can keep one. This is for your own records, and shows that you submitted this form to the manager. If hour disputes arise, you have the form to prove that you did submit it and the manager then must prove that you agreed to the other hours.

Publix takes employee relations very seriously because we ARE the company. If this dispute cannot be resolved between you, your manager, and your store manager, you can take the matter to Human Resources. The HR representative has his/her number posted in the break room. Something can be worked out.

Answer 3

yes, as long as theyre not forcing you to work more than 40 hours a week

Answer 4

As a part-time employee you can specify the hours that you will be available. However the number of hours that you will be scheduled for within these times is entirely at Publix's discretion.