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So I actually worked at Whole Foods for a bit. It helps when you realize there's actually three classes of workers at Whole Foods. There's Part Time (Not suppo

So I actually worked at Whole Foods for a bit. It helps when you realize there's actually three classes of workers at Whole Foods. There's Part Time (Not supposed to be over twenty hours), Part Time 20(at least twenty hours), and Full Time (think north of 35 hours a week). The latter two get health insurance, the first does not. The part time 20 worker has to pay a lot more for health insurance but it's a really good plan. I suspect what they're doing here is bumping more people from part time 20 down to part time to reduce benefits. Honestly this doesn't really surprise me. While I worked there they were hostile to giving people consistent hours. I suspect many jobs are like that though. Made it very hard to have a second part time job while you worked there. There was also radical swings in my hours week to week. Some weeks I worked 12 hours, one week I worked 32 (I was a part time worker).

vector_spaces 8y ago
I worked for Whole Foods for a while too, and can vouch that even prior to the Amazon acquisition this is how they rolled. I was hired during a hiring freeze when they weren't hiring new outside FT people. My team leader needed me full time, so we learned that, internally at least, the constraints on PT/FT status weren't the weekly hours worked but the average weekly hours during a fiscal period. This led to a situation where I worked a couple 25-30 hour weeks, then went down to 8-16 other weeks.