Honestly, it's going to effect very few partners. Right now, some stores have partners who work once a week, while at other stores the manager won't allow that. Starbucks is just offering some kind of standard of consistency.

12 hours is not a lot.

They want more availability but don’t want to give more hours. A partnership is a two-way street; if the siren wants more open availability, dish out commensurate hours.

That being said, they can do this legally, and the only way to really change it is by unionizing.

The official new policy is all partners must work a min of 12 hours a week on average per quarter( so doesn’t have to be each week but a good majority) and have an availability of 18 hours in the system. (Which can easily be obtained by just being fully open 2 day)
Idk where this SM got this 150% availability from. That is not accurate.

I work one day a week with availability on a second day if needed. Starbucks is my “fun” job (because of partners, not corporate lol) that breaks up my awfully draining full-time job. If I have to quit, it will truly impact my mental health by losing my low pressure job and friends. My manager has NEVER given me a hard time about my availability.

This was poor and improper communication on your manager's part. This was an update that was given to store managers and above this week. Conversations with partners that would be affected by this new policy are supposed to occur beginning next week when there are more resources available. In the long run, it is not going to affect many partners, it is supposed to just make a standard across all stores so there is some consistency. Reach out to your DM if you have questions because your store manager completely twisted this update to make it something it is not!

they gonna be surprised when people start calling off a lot

I like it.
A few people want to dictate their exact schedule and make everyone else have flex around it, which means your employees who have wider availabilities get weird scheduling. Had a girl that was working 2-3 3.5 hour shifts every week and it was too difficult to get the AM scheduled, as she would be leaving right in the middle of peak and only wanted to work at that specific time.

honestly if it means that i’m gonna get 30+ hours with my very open availability then i’m happy. (even though it probably won’t work like that and i’ll still be stuck at 20)

i think it’s dumb honestly. especially at my store, i always ask for 25 hours a week and i’m lucky if i get more than 15. even though the store is very short staffed constantly. and it happens to everyone!!! i have pretty open availability too. i work two jobs so i work one on tuesday-thursday and starbucks every other day and they always schedule me for like 3 or 4 hour shifts and it’s like, ridiculously frustrating. i’ve asked for longer shifts so many times (i live an hour away from sbux so i waste the majority of my paycheck in gas since they schedule me on dumbass hours) but they never give them to me. longest i’ve had recently was 5 hours 45 minutes. thankfully i’m going to be going full time at my other job soon so i won’t have to worry about fishing for hours anymore, and i’ll have a MUCH more steady schedule and routine. as much as i have loved working at starbucks, i’ve learned they do not value our time and they do not really care about the well being of our workers. it’s terrible!!!

imo this totally fucks over all the baristas who are minors or still in school. i live 30 mins away from work and i do stuff outside of school that impacts my availability. asking students to work more than they are comfortable with during the week is crazy. plus i have almost completely open avaliability right now and i get scheduled for 20 hrs every week lmfao

Was this on the weekly update? If so I totally missed it. I know a few partners who only work one or two days a week 😬

It’s koo it’s koo. Cut all my hrs lol

This is far from unreasonable. I’ve had a hard time working with partners who work less than 12 hours a week (by their own choice) before. They just don’t get enough practice to get all that good at it and need a lot of help and direction. You get enough people like that and it honestly just sucks so much ass. Also scheduling gets really funky sometimes because people have very very specific schedules and those schedules don’t make sense within the context of other people’s schedules and the stores business.

Other people have responded by bringing up complaints about how little they get scheduled despite wanting more hours and how few labor hours stores are given in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, I think if Starbucks wants this they should do more to guarantee their employee’s hours. Like the best employees work more. The ones who can be more dedicated and more useful have more open availability. That’s the whole point of this. So Starbucks should reward that behavior.

So this is all well and good but only if it’s a give and take and not just a take. The more people who can actually treat this as a full time job and their sole source of income the better of a work environment it’ll be.

Dumb for forcing hours but also kinda jealous since I want hours

I will have worked for this company 4 years in October. I work an average of 4-9 hours a week. I have called off twice in four years. Once for a death. Once for illness. I show up to my shifts and do my job.

If that’s not enough, that’s fine. At least I know where I stand.

Seems like a real weird time to be laying down minimums when we’re having trouble with adequate staffing. But go off…

I’m one of few that this new policy will royally fuck over. I work around 25-30 a week now, but I was planning on just working a singular 8 hour shift each Saturday when my college classes start back up. I need loads of time to study for my major, so fuck me I guess

I'm available 45, but if I remain available for 45, I should at the very least get 34 on the schedule! So this is just plain bs! Schedule me to actually work instead of scheduling me to be available because someone calls out is bs mentality!

This is actually a really old rule that no one really enforces. It says in the barista guide that the availability of baristas must match the store need. Years ago it said it in similar terms like this. It’s not as bad as it seems. It’s just asking that if you want 12 hrs 16 is available and if you want 20 you need 30 available etc. that’s 150%. Managers might use this rule if they have too many partners working just one day a week. Starbucks does have a goal for store managers to average the store hours to 20 hrs per barista. This way the majority of the team qualifies for full benefits. This says to me that they have availability needs at specific day parts and no one to schedule but they don’t have enough hours to really look for a new barista. It would be hard to find someone who wants like 8 hours a week but only on Tuesday and Thursday between 5am-9am for example. By having the whole team give more availability this can save them for having to hire someone for those specific times and hurting the hours of existing partners.

The 12 hour minimum is irrelevant. The 150% availability is the biggest pile of horse shit I’ve ever seen.

I’ve always been told that’s the policy oop

I work in a college starbucks and this is going to ruin a lot of my coworkers ability to work for this company. So many of us joined BECAUSE of the flexibility, and forcing us to work this much will end up losing a chunk of our employees. I’ll personally be ok, as I am a shift who works 25 usually, but like… this blows.

This is fucking bullshit

i’ll be leaving before this hits, but as someone who has been begging my manager for more hours (only getting 4-8 a week with open availability), i’m wondering how overstaffed stores will handle this… so glad it won’t be my problem

I don’t see any problem with it. It is only 2 -3 shifts a week on average.

Wonder if they’ll give y’all the payroll to make this work OR if you’ll have to cut hours from other people to meet this standard.

Tbh I thought this was already the standard. 🤔

Oh let me guess they will implement this into the unionized/unionizing stores without a thought but deny to even bargain for the new unilateral benefits? The exact same procedure for both to legally be implemented into such stores is the same!

Well shit. I only work about 4hrs a week. Does this mean I’ll have to quit?

Sounds good to me personally

been with Starbucks for 4 years but have been part time for maybe 1 year. Even if I change to full availability they offered 20-25 hrs and that’s not even guaranteed. Love this job and company but I feel like this policy is forcing me to resign 😕😕

My SM was trying to get me to open up my availability by like 15 more hours. I work another job, so that was just impossible for me so I'm being let go. (Which is fine, because i was about to put in my notice since im moving for college in a couple weeks. so thats not the point). She said that she had to talk to multiple people about it, and she's prioritizing people who dont work other jobs. Basically, if you only work a couple days a week (bc of school or another job) and you cant open your availability, she's taking you off the schedule.

I dont really see how thats going to solve our labor issues. A LOT of people work other jobs to make ends meet, or work while theyre in school. It doesnt really make sense to me. My store is about to lose multiple good partners because of it.

Personally, its not affecting me much (since i was leaving anyway). But I know it'll probably be affecting others more heavily, including the people staying who are about to be very understaffed.

As if they would ever let someone work 45 hours a week? They yell at you for going 5 minutes above 40hrs.

When was this posted?

Just no... hold a manager, or anyone from corporate up to those standards and they'd say no... so just no... if they want more work, offer more pay, done deal. Especially with the economy omy right now, wtf?

this is going to majorly fuck over every college student who isn't selling their soul to this leech company, myself included. i only work 11 hours a week, the rest of my time is spent in class or studying because i am in medical school. once this comes into effect, if i get laid off, i'm royally screwed. i hope SMs can still work with partners who cannot increase their hours and availability for reasons like school, or i'm gonna be looking for a new job :/

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my store already goes by this

The 150% is made up. That’s not part of the changes.

It prevents abuse of power because there is a corporate written rule on it

yeah but they won’t even schedule you for over 10 hours , go off I guess

I work 30 hours a week but I’m not gonna make myself available for 45 hours. It’s bull

Fake. My manager hasn’t told us anything like this. Prolly a licensed store with a shitty manager.

I literally thought this was a joke when I started reading omg

we already started this last month

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I want to work 40 hours a week, is that not possible? Starbucks is a day to day operation. There is no excuse except corporate greed to explain it.

Is this an American thing only? Or a Canadian thing as well?

The 12 hours a week makes sense to me. There's some partners at my store who are scheduled one 4 hour shift a week... Then they get that shift covered and they haven't been here in like 2 months... But they get all the benefits of working at Starbucks like their markout and discount. It doesn't make sense. 12 hours a week is not too much to ask.

is this company wide? pretty ridiculous if you want 40 hours you’re gonna need to be available for like 60

Whoa, was this in a weekly update?

It seems like they could be doing this to prevent people part-time from working at the store for the sole purpose of unionizing the store. I could be wrong, but with all the anti-union bullshit I’ve seen from this company, I wouldn’t be surprised.

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From a SSV who is training to be a SM, I can tell you this is what every store should be doing. I work at a licensed store and I do have to admit that most of the new hires we have at out store start with this amazing availability Mon-Sat 9-5. Then after a couple of weeks the start adding more days off to their availability and it puts management in a tough situation to find coverage. In my store everyone has to save Sat-Sun availability no matter what.

Personally, 12 hours is not a lot. Work two 6.5 or 7 shifts a week. But, I’m sure if you have a valid reason to work less than 12, that your manager would hopefully listen to you and allow it.

manager must be making their own rules or sumn cause i have not seen anything like this at all