Target will pay employees an extra $2 an hour for peak days of holiday season

[qmosqueen]

Wow

Here’s How Target’s Thanking Its Team With Extra Pay During Its Busiest Holiday Moments

corporate.target.com

• Target said it will pay an extra $2 an hour to store and service center employees who work peak days during the holiday season, such as on Saturdays and Sundays in the final weeks before Christmas.

The extra pay will go to store employees and service center employees who work on Saturdays and Sundays from Nov. 20 to Dec. 19, on Christmas Eve or on the day after Christmas.

Target will pay employees an extra $2 an hour for peak days of holiday season

The big-box retailer previously said it would scale back its holiday hiring and give more hours to its staff.

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[dannyy315]

I work Saturdays and Sundays!

 

[Luck]

Interesting. We got a similar announcement at the DC but its just a blanket raise for the next two weeks.

 

[IhateOPmodel]

Wow $16 dollars a day $32 for the whole weekend before tax, gee thanks. They should do it for the entirety of Q4

 

[DBZ]

Good. Maybe this will prevent a few call offs.

 

[RTCry]

Time and a half for Xmas Eve and day after Xmas would help a bit.

 

[Anelmi]

So for those of us who just got bumped to $16.50/hour, that means $18.50/hour for those days?

 

[sunnydays]

yes

 

[vyrt]

So for those of us who just got bumped to $16.50/hour, that means $18.50/hour for those days?

It’ll probably be like the hazard pay / shift differential for those days as to not tick overtime where that’s allowed.

 

[dannyy315]

Is pay differential taxed like normal wages, or as a bonus?

 

[Reshop Ninja]

I wish Target would bump it up a bit more for working on Sunday. The people who shop on Sunday afternoon and evenings act like complete animals.

 

[SallyHoover]

Good. Maybe this will prevent a few call offs.

or maybe it will make someone more likely to pick up a shift for you if you were denied a day off.

 

[SuckMyDuckMFer]

They don't care about you. Just a select few. That's why they give secret fall bonuses to some and not all.

 

[SallyHoover]

I wish Target would bump it up a bit more for working on Sunday. The people who shop on Sunday afternoon and evenings act like complete animals.

The union grocery store in my area gets time and half for Sundays even if you aren't at 40 hours. Even a normal 50 cent to a dollar year round shift differential for weekends would be nice.

 

[SallyHoover]

and it would be nice if the $2 applied from Thanksgiving to New Years Day and did not apply to anyone still on probation.

 

[TurgetCirkl]

Really hope target does that 1.50 raise company wide

 

[countingsheep]

2 days what a cheap piece of garbage company 🙄 offense fully intended bit you look at what these selfish jerks made over the year no one else was open they sure as hell can do better than that 😡

 

[Ashfromoldsite]

Is pay differential taxed like normal wages, or as a bonus?

Like normal

 

[SigningLady]

They don't care about you. Just a select few. That's why they give secret fall bonuses to some and not all.

Some of us work harder than others though. And we were all supposed to have been informed of this possible bonus in April. If you weren't, what can I say, Spot struggles with communication. 🤷🏻‍♀️

 

[commiecorvus]

If you weren't, what can I say, Spot struggles with communication. 🤷🏻‍♀️

That is putting it mildly.

 

[Frontlanegirl]

2 days what a cheap piece of garbage company 🙄 offense fully intended bit you look at what these selfish jerks made over the year no one else was open they sure as hell can do better than that 😡

It’s more than two days.

 

[IWishIKnew]

They did a $1 differential (IIRC) for Saturdays & Sundays between Black Friday & Christmas during my first year at Spot (would be almost 4 years ago). I think it was that year, anyway. They didn't do it the following year and my ETL said they'd hoped it would help prevent weekend call-outs.

It didn't. Presumably Spot didn't feel it would be worth it to do it again following years. Interesting to see them revive it this year.

 

[gracefulfillment]

Some of us work harder than others though. And we were all supposed to have been informed of this possible bonus in April. If you weren't, what can I say, Spot struggles with communication. 🤷🏻‍♀️

They STILL haven't said anything at my store, but that's definitely par for the course at this location.

 

[Florida Dawg]

Just don’t cut more peoples hours though. 🙄 They better not do that otherwise it’s pointless. I’m all for it as long as hours don’t get cut more than it already is.

 

[dannyy315]

Just don’t cut more peoples hours though. 🙄 They better not do that otherwise it’s pointless. I’m all for it as long as hours don’t get cut more than it already is.

We were told today that we have less payroll this month, and they’re going to start cracking down on people staying more than 10 minutes after their shifts. And sales were way down the past couple days. I think people are saving up for holiday shopping.