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Bruce Hansen
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From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 08-02-2005 05:09 PM
How do you expect your employees to care about the company, if the company doesn't care about them. When you need them, they may just decide that it isn't important to show up. What goes around, comes around. If the manager isn't very good at scheduling, then maybe HE (or she) should go home without pay.
When someone books me, and then tells me they don't need me, at the last minute, I still bill for the day. It is not my fault that someone cannot schedule, and I will not pay for someone elses screw-up.
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Dan Bouvier
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From: Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 08-02-2005 07:13 PM
Here in Alberta, as far as I understand, you can send someone home whenever but you have to pay them for at least three hours at minimun wage, per shift. If the person normally makes $18 an hour (obviously not at a theatre), and they only work an hour, no big deal. But if they're making minimum wage and you want to send them home after an hour, you legally have to pay them for three hours, so you might as well keep them around for a while.
However, if it's slow and you need to send people home, and you ask "Who wants to go home?" and some kid volunteers, I guess you could say that it was his choice and then ignore the three hour rule, but I'm not sure how legal that is.
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