I work for a certain airline and we just got notice of shift change bids. To explain this, as I've never heard of this bullshit before, every single employee (except managers of course) has now no schedule. Our regular hours are gone and we must now bid, yes bid, for new shifts. The works who have been here longer receive more “points” and can bid for their most wanted placement with greater success. Those who have recently been hired get smaller amounts of “points” and basically are given whatever is left over.
I just got notice of this today and realize that while I am close to the top of this list regarding points, my normal hours are gone. I work 30 hours a week always friday, Monday, Saturday, and Sunday as all other days I am a full time student doing student teaching. That shift is gone. The only others are week days as well as weekends. I asked could an exception be made as none of the provided hours work and was told no. To make matters worse for my other coworkers some shifts only offer 12 hour weeks instead of the standard 40 nearly all of us are used to.
I just handed in my resignation as I quite literally cannot fit any other days into my schedule but I feel like this is unfair. I did not sign a contract stating this would occur. I agreed to my hours and my hours only. I've worked with this airline for nearly a year as their main trainer and to see it dumped in a matter of minutes is horrible. I just want to know, is this even legal??? We have no choice and somehow managers are exempt but not the worker who, when handed in their resignation, was begged to just “put aside” school to work their shit ass hours.