how does scratching and pay work at bonus centers?

[kerbinator]

Here again, we see how things differ from one center to the next. Our cover drivers are full time and get bonus.

same here

 

[kerbinator]

My advise.

1) Don't get use to bonus. They giveth and they can taketh.
2) Don't work for bonus. Work to complete your day and your career.

this is exactly why I didn't want to ask my boss or co-workers

but I don't mind complete strangers thinking I only care about dollars and cents

 

[Jones]

OK, I'm more confused than when I started. If you are dispatched at 9 hours and do it in 7 do you get 1 hour guarantee pay and 1 hour bonus or do you just get the guarantee pay?

Bonus is just like OT that you don't work. If you finish a 9 hour plan in 7 hours you'll get paid 8 hours straight time and 1 hour bonus. Bonus here is paid at the OT rate.

 

[Big Babooba]

Running "scratch" means you drove so many miles, made so many delivery and pickup stops, and a few other things in the planned amount of time. It uses a nearly impossible math formula to achieve a planned day based on you having a miracle day where everything goes right.

Well I graduated from the sixth grade and I can tell you that the "nearly impossible math formula" you speak of is actually quite simple. I used to do these problems on the school bus every morning.

 

[Johney]

Here again, we see how things differ from one center to the next. Our cover drivers are full time and get bonus.

Maybe not. I'll explain it different.
1.We have full-time drivers who have a bid route.
2.We have full-time drivers who don't have bid routes(swing drivers).
3.We have cover drivers that basically do what a full-time driver does just make less money and are usually sent back to pre-load or re-load during summer.They are essentially part-timers. No friend/t vacation,no bonus,not guaranteed 8 hours,can't be on 9.5 list.
Is that how it is there?

 

[menotyou]

Maybe not. I'll explain it different.
1.We have full-time drivers who have a bid route.
2.We have full-time drivers who don't have bid routes(swing drivers).
3.We have cover drivers that basically do what a full-time driver does just make less money and are usually sent back to pre-load or re-load during summer.They are essentially part-timers. No friend/t vacation,no bonus,not guaranteed 8 hours,can't be on 9.5 list.
Is that how it is there?

Sounds like my center. Add in the kid who goes to the airport at 3 am to get the air. That job should be FT. He delivers til between 11 am -1pm.

 

[kingOFchester]

Maybe not. I'll explain it different.
1.We have full-time drivers who have a bid route.
2.We have full-time drivers who don't have bid routes(swing drivers).
3.We have cover drivers that basically do what a full-time driver does just make less money and are usually sent back to pre-load or re-load during summer.They are essentially part-timers. No friend/t vacation,no bonus,not guaranteed 8 hours,can't be on 9.5 list.
Is that how it is there?

YES,

 

[menotyou]

YES,

So, who gets the bonus? JUst the bid drivers?

 

[kingOFchester]

So, who gets the bonus? JUst the bid drivers?

Bid drivers and the "swing" drivers. All full time drivers.
The drivers that are working summer vacations and peak are not in progression and are not coded as full time even tho they are working 40 plus hours a week, They do not get bonus.

 

[menotyou]

Bid drivers and the "swing" drivers. All full time drivers.
The drivers that are working summer vacations and peak are not in progression and are not coded as full time even tho they are working 40 plus hours a week, They do not get bonus.

Sounds unfair. Strange concept.

 

[Johney]

Sounds unfair. Strange concept.

It is very unfair. As far as I understand the cover driver concept was to be used to cover vacations and staffing issues. But here they are used to supplement the friend/t workforce. We have far more cover drivers that work than people on vacation. To me that means we need more friend/t drivers. I could be wrong though.

 

[menotyou]

It is very unfair. As far as I understand the cover driver concept was to be used to cover vacations and staffing issues. But here they are used to supplement the friend/t workforce. We have far more cover drivers that work than people on vacation. To me that means we need more friend/t drivers. I could be wrong though.

You aren't wrong. We have covers/casuals working year round, when they use to actually visit their home shifts once in a while. I don't see the union demanding the FT jobs that so desperately are needed.

 

[Jackburton]

Our center pays bonus as straight pay, not overtime.

 

[brownmonster]

Our center pays bonus as straight pay, not overtime.

I would like to see a pay stub that verifies this. Production bonus is not a union negotiated benefit so why do some Centers get it at time and a half?

 

[Johney]

Our center pays bonus as straight pay, not overtime.

Ours too.

 

[Johney]

I would like to see a pay stub that verifies this. Production bonus is not a union negotiated benefit so why do some Centers get it at time and a half?

As would I.

 

[kingOFchester]

I can provide proof that my bonus is paid at time and a half with guarantee being paid at regular time.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I can provide proof that my bonus is paid at time and a half with guarantee being paid at regular time.

Black out the appropriate areas of your most recent paystub, scan and save as PDF, upload to BC.

 

[menotyou]

I can provide proof that my bonus is paid at time and a half with guarantee being paid at regular time.

Wow. That's awesome.

 

[kingOFchester]

I have already done all this but saved as a jpeg
Will that work>?