Cut Hours=No Holiday Pay

I have touched on today's blog subject before. It is the practice of many Walmart stores to cut an associates hours to negate the Holiday pay that they are required to pay by law. It seems a little niggardly, doesn't it? And before anyone starts having a politically correct cow about the word niggardly please look it up. It means to be cheap or selfish. It wasn't that long ago that the politically correct crowd had a conniption fit when a politician used the word. I guess because it sounds like a bad word? If that is the case, then how can any one use the word brunt? But I digress. I have heard from many many associates who have told me that when a Holiday rolls around, their hours are cut to accommodate the Holiday pay that they are going to receive. I think that this practice is reprehensible and should be against the law. Instead of having some dumb Congressional hearings to find out if Sammy Sosa was taking steroids (you think?) could our hired legislators look into the practise of cutting a worker's hours so that their Holiday pay is balanced by the hours that they didn't get to work? It seems a little crooked to me, but I'm not a politician, so I don't see crooked on a daily basis. I don't understand how something like this is not illegal. I can only imagine how much it has to suck for the people who are faced with this problem every time a holiday rolls around. What part of this practice is respect for the individual?? Of course, if I were a store manager and looking for ways to pad my own bonus- I guess this would be a pretty slick trick, wouldn't it? But then, if I were a store manager there is a good chance that I would still be trying to pull that "I only get the bonus you get" crap. Riiiight. My share, your share, and half of his share is more like it. But anyway, before I go off on another tangent here,let me be perfectly clear with my opinion. Anyone who is having their hours cut to offset the Holiday pay that Walmart is required to pay you should run-not walk- to their nearest elected official and demand that something be done about this. If the newly elected bunch of do-nothings will not help, tell your newspapers about it. With enough media attention, even the useless government officials will have to do something. ( Just hope that there isn't another steroid scandal for them to be distracted by.) Good luck. And if you have a personal story to relate, just send me an comment, I read them all. Especially the tasteless blonde joke guy. God bless you sir. And if we can get some government attention on this deplorable theft of Holiday pay, you can thank me later.