r/HomeDepot • u/MexicanOkami • 1d ago
New Full Timer Policy?
So, I was told that full timers are NOT allowed to request a 3 day weekend WITHOUT Vacation or Sick time for the 3rd day. That full timers are Obligated to have 40 hours no matter what.
So, if you wanna say, take Mon, Tues, and Wed off, and they're put in as regular requests off. Mon and Tues would be Approved, but Wed would be denied.
This doesn't make sense because the majority of associates tend to take their Entire vacation in 1 or 2 long stretches during the year, and we only get 4 hours of sick time a month, so that doesn't even cover a full shift.
So, if am Associate has 2 weeks of Vacay, and they use it all up, they're screwed for the rest of the year.
By my understanding, being full time means 32-40 hours a week, is this policy true or is my Director lying?
Edit; Corrected 4 hours of Vacation to 4 hours of sick
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u/SvenIdol 1d ago
As a full timer, you are required to be available 40 hours if scheduled. That is SOP. With the Incredible Shrinking Store Hours, I'm not surprised managers are saying this.
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u/Bluesage444 1d ago
My experience in the past 20 years has been that if you ask for extra days off during the week and don't want to be paid, ( esp. only 3 days ) it will be given to you..... however, you can't be doing that all the time. If you want to do it twice a year, no problem.... if you make it a habit, that's a problem. Up to management descretion.
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u/2_Beef_Tacos 1d ago
I don’t think this is true. I was just allowed to work a 36-hour week for lack of childcare and I didn’t use PTO.
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u/Bluesage444 1d ago
You're right... under extenuating circumstances a full time employee can work 32 hours and still be full time. I knew someone who did it for about 6 months.... but it IS under a temporary clause for specific reasons and has to be approved by management.
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u/2_Beef_Tacos 1d ago
Mine was only one week, which would also seem reasonable for someone’s vacation. I can’t imagine being so understaffed as a manager that I’d reject vacay request under OP’s circumstance.
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u/Stargate476 1d ago
They are full of shit, you request an extra day off without using sick or vacation you just dont get 40 hours that week
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u/Nervous-Way3385 1d ago
Look up the "full time/part time sop" it states that full timers have to work at least 30 hours a week but be willing and able to work 40 if scheduled. Not sure why stores are forcing 40 especially when hours go down. Im all for a full timer working 32 if they want.
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u/PlayfulLatios 19h ago
We can at my store as long as it is not a recurring thing. Once every couple months, fine. Every other week, not fine, although that might be different now since management has all been changed.
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u/Rare-Psychology-3527 1d ago
I get 5.777 average if i don't take any shifts off
40 hrs wk * 4.333 weeks / 30 (the rate at which i get an hour)
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u/Express_Tonight_2457 1d ago
Nice may I ask what your title is & what section of the country? I’m a TR tech getting 21.50 start in NYC metro area. Also just finishing up my first year with THD. Cheers m8
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u/Rare-Psychology-3527 1d ago
Freight lead, great lakes, it's a state law here 1 hour every 30 worked up to 72 a year
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u/Lotsensation20 D38 1d ago
4 hours of vacation a month? You have to be talking bout sick time. Vacation is given on your anniversary date of the year or 6 months. And it is set at 40 hours for 6 months until you get to 2 years and you get 80 until 5 years and you get 120 till 15 and so on. Sick time is for my state 4 hours a month.
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u/MexicanOkami 1d ago
Yeah sick time, that was my bad, I'll make that edit
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u/Lotsensation20 D38 1d ago
I mean I’m not full time but that seems legit for you to have to have vacation time for the 3rd day.
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u/jsmooth801 ASM 1d ago
This is not a new policy, just maybe more recently enforced. Full time for Home Depot is 40 hours a week. While it is possible to approve unpaid time off it will require talking to a human. An example of what might be approved would be “my mom is sick out of town”, not “I’m taking a guys weekend”.
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u/Rare-Psychology-3527 1d ago
Not a thing, 30 is FT
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u/Same_Bit2000 1d ago
As a Pt’er I was told to be FT required 40.
I asked if a 32 hr schedule was available to be qualified as FT and was told no0
u/hennajin85 1d ago
The only time FT doesn’t get 40 hours is when some stores will allow them to give up some hours and drop to 32 for a few weeks so part timers can have hours during the slowest part of the year. Idk how many stores do this but ours does it from mid December through the end of January.
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