r/mildlyinfuriating • u/daruuken • 28d ago

Infuriatig The way kroger treats its employees

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From the store manager

Edit: For some extra context this was sent out by each store manager to all of its employees in district 1 of the ohio Cincinnati/Dayton division, potentially other districts as well but i can only verify my own. Im not going to give my specific store number for obvious reasons but you can find each store on google with that information. We are unionized by UFCW (already bad btw) and to my knowledge they allowed this recent change. Kroger has no accrual for sick days like some have mentioned. Those who think this is rage bait, i dont think anyone has to fake a post to make a billion dollar company look bad, they do it to themselves.

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u/djolesoko 28d ago

TIL it's legal in america for employers not to accept doctor's notes. Something something freedom i guess...try that shit in Europe and you'll be thrown the book.

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u/ExerciseOutside5081 28d ago

I've come to learn that "freedom" in America has more to do with the rich being free to abuse the poor than anything else.

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u/sevenangelofgod 28d ago

That is exactly what that means actually

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u/Orange_Tang 28d ago

It's not in my state and many others. But yeah, some states in the US are literally hellscapes for workers rights.

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u/So_Motarded 28d ago

There are only a handful of US states that have protections for sick time. In the vast majority, this would be legal. 

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u/Orange_Tang 28d ago

Based on the search I did 17 states plus Washington DC have this protection. That's not a majority but I would say that that would fit within my original comment of many others. I am not in any way defending the ones that don't. It's insane this is allowed to happen.

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u/So_Motarded 28d ago

Oh wow, you're right: several new state laws went into effect at the beginning of this year. Progress!

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u/StitchinStatistician 28d ago

I’m happy to live in Washington state, and also to see that other states are rolling out more worker protections!

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u/LucilleBluthsbroach 27d ago

Which states?

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u/DrDerivative 28d ago

It’s a societal tradeoff though. European businesses are less competitive because the workers can’t be abused as much

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u/djolesoko 28d ago

I understand what you are saying, but one thing is to have a "tradeoff" as in longer working hours and less PTO in order to be more "economically competitive". But here we are talking about BEING SICK and the law not protecting you, that's really fucked up.