90 percent of the employees there would quit if the job economy were better. - Anonymous employee Swiss Colony Employee Review

1.0
16 July 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

There are no pros to working at Colony Brands. Any review that is positive here is a plant.

Cons

90 percent of the employees are really not employees at all. They are called temporary employees. Many of these "temporary employees" have worked there for 15 to 20 years. All that time working 40 hour weeks. Now that we have National Health Care policy, Colony Brands has found a loophole and has them working 30 hours per week or less so that they are not required by law to pay for their insurance. Temporary employees who have been there 5, 10, 15, 20 years now are being required to take 12 weeks off this year to average 30 hours or less. . They have no benefits; retirement; not time off for holidays, sick time, vacation, etc. If they miss work, they will not be paid. There are a few FULL TIME EMPLOYEES. Not many. Those people talk about everyone else and complain about them. They seem not to realize that it is all those "worker bees" (the 90 percent) who do all the work. It is a very negative company. They really need a union to guarantee fairness. They hold the carrot of "possible" insurance in 2016, to 10 percent of those 90 percent, to make them work harder. Shameful that sweatshops like this still exist. Moral is so low, just looking around at them makes me tired.

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Cons

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Cons

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