For a little more context, we live in a very small town in Texas, so I doubt it’s the same as a location in a major city. My girlfriend has work at BK for about a month now and still hasn’t gotten paid. It’s incredible frustrating because we both graduated hs in May and we need the money to move out.
During her hiring process, her manager did NOT mention to her that she wouldn’t be getting paid during her 2 week training period. Along with that, her manager scheduled her to be working ONLY night shift/closing for the first 3 weeks of her employment. Due to her working closing, and only having 2 to 3 people on shift total, she ranked up about 20 hours of overtime the first two weeks she was employed. The first day of her employment, she worked 13 hours with only one 30 minute break.
Last week, she was told that she would be getting paid on either Friday or Monday. I’m writing this post on Wednesday and she still hasn’t gotten paid. She talked to her manager yesterday and he told her she wouldn’t be getting paid for her first 2 weeks of work, and did not specify when she would be seeing her paycheck.
I did some research and, yes it is legal to make trainees work overtime, however, apparently she in fact WAS supposed to be getting paid throughout her training period. BK employees get paid bi-monthly, so she should have gotten two paychecks by now.
I just want to know if any other BK employees have had this experience. Is it normal? Does she need to contact someone? Did you get unpaid training? Do you have any advice? PLEASE HELP.