Crowbar, you are kidding, right? I mean, how many times do I get a free pass to coldcock you before UPS can fire me???? You want 20??? Man, you have to get a grip on yourself if you have issues like that.
Yes, the starting part time wage at UPS is a sin. IT does need to be addressed. But so do a lot of things as well.
I keep hearing about drivers being OK with wages stagnating, as long as benefits increase. Wont happen. Benefits have sky rocketed way faster than wages ever have. It is quickly becoming the largest cost past wages.
I attended a tax class to make sure I was charging tax on things I needed to, and learn about the exemptions. One of the classes was on unemployment insurance.
They told us we had to pay unemployment on even casual workers, even if we used them for only a few hours in a year. At my current rate, that is 3% of their wage.
Now, if I use this "employee" one day a month, and then dont need him again, I have to pay that 3% on his total wage. Problem is, that now he can go down and file a claim. Thats right, casual workers, after the first hour, can file an unemployment claim.
The result is that at the end of the year, the rate for my workers would be 24% of their gross wage. And that is just for unemployment tax.
The way things are getting, if I pay you $10 bucks an hour, it costs me almost $20 to have you working.
So it is getting way out of hand.
One thing that always was an issue is that of sups working. Someone else posted as well. They will keep doing it as long as there is no cost in relationship to the behavior. That needs to be changed.
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