Current Events > Got a 4.5% raise... but they stealth cut my bonus

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Fuck corporations.

Damn sorry Cleo - I remember you having had to change jobs a few times over the past few years.

Are you still thinking about going solo?

My company has a maximum for raises of 4.5% and no bonuses.
I got the 4.5% this year but with inflation it doesn't feel like a raise. I feel like companies not giving raises that match inflation is just.....sigh.

My mother works in homecare, at night. I dont know how it is over there, but here they are legally forced to pay a supplement if you work at "bad times", like weekends or nights. So she is only working 70% timewise but getting paid for working 100% with the supplements.
Her union had been talking about "the big deal", getting a nice raise for years, and some years ago they managed to do so. They talked big about how much they cared for their workers and how hard they had been fighting for it. The only problem was that it would take 5 or so months before it would start to happen, but luckily the difference until then would be paid as a retroactive pay.
Time went on and she finally got her new paycheck, only to discover that she suddenly earned a little bit less.
After some digging around, she discovered that the "big union deal" had changed the definition of when the supplement was being paid out.
Saturday morning, which is a weekend, was now defined as Friday night, which gave less pay. Sunday night ended at 24:00, then it was Monday morning. The supplement hours were also changed and started later.