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Date:         Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:30:39 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Rear Hatch Gasketage
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CAHTkEuKGKh0fdNSRO1oJr+f9GK3bP4DdNNwqp2bgWnWQ5-f3dQ@mail.gmail.com>
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The shop worker is paid for the hours listed in the shop manual for a particular job, not simply as an hourly employee. That is why in many shops they will try to rush a job, to get on to the next one and get paid for more hours. That may vary from shop to shop, but almost all dealerships operate this way so far as I know.

mcneely

---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote: > > > Well, if I were the only one who worked on it, the explanation could be > > simple incompetence, but others, professionals, tried. The automotive > > window/skylight shop owner refused payment for the half day his workers put > > on it, but I paid anyway. His workers, like in most automotive shops, work > > by piecework pay. He passed what I paid on to the workers, or actually > > told me to just pay them directly. mcneely > > > > > Really? They pay the workers piecework in shops? > > So every mechanic who works in my state has to have his own business > license, insurance, bond and everything else? They'd be subcontractors > here and subject to huge nasty fines for working without the proper > license... > The employer, the shop owner, he doesn't have to provide any benefits to > these workers, then...and the state, it gets a fee from every guy who works > in the shop rather than just a single fee for the shop as a whole? I > don't think Workmans Compensation covers Self Employed, and I know > Unemployment Insurance doesn't apply to them, either. > > Last time I checked, the fee to get a sub's license, bonding and insurance > to comply with my state's requirements were nearly $3000....a lot of cash > for nothing but the right to go punch in and work all day

-- David McNeely


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