Good luck getting your vacation pay. - Security Officer Allied Universal Employee Review

1.0
Oct 12, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

This job is extremely easy with moderate stress.

Cons

They stole money from me by cutting my overtime pay rate from 1.5 times my hourly rate to 1.4 times my hourly rate (which is against the law). It literally showed me getting paid .10 to $1.00 per hour less depending on how much they felt I was worth that week. Disgusting. And the one constant every year is the lack of vacation pay. They offer it, it's just that you put in for the vacation time months in advance. The days come and go and the week when the check is supposed to come you realize they didn't pay you your vacation time. Than you have to call the office weekly for months, until you give up. It's been like this for years. They refused to pay employees there hourly rate for being out sick during the Corona, even though the company makes multi billion dollars a year. The CEO wanted to save money by shorting the overtime pay rates during the Corona, as well. They took away my two weeks of vacation time away by "mistake" and it's been 3 months of me calling to get that time restored and nothing. Now I'm being told that the corporate office has to fix it. Irritating! This cheap company with their cheap CEO have stole from their employees, and screwed them out of earnings. The place we work at, a hospital, paid all of their employees thousands in extra money for working in a hazardous environment. And our company couldn't even pay us our hourly rate, (I can't say this enough) resorting to stealing from us, and refused to pay us for our forced two weeks off of work after getting the Corona.

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We are sorry you had this experience, the situation you described does not reflect the expectations we have of our teams or Allied Universal’s values. We will be sharing this feedback with our management teams in order to improve.

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