Originally Posted by
serioustraveler
Are you of the same opinion that businesses should pay for employees clothing? After all if I require my employees to dress sharp, it's affects the employee financially.
The Fire Department I am also an employee of, bought my turnout gear.
Originally Posted by
serioustraveler
Where do you draw the line? If there are hourly employees and I need to cut back on hours due to a downturn in the economy I'll be affecting them financially via less work hours,?
What? I am not an hourly employee with my day/travel job...
Originally Posted by
serioustraveler
The cost to be an employee needs to be weighed by the employee, if you don't want to pay for meals when you're being paid to travel the compensation isn't high enough and you shouldn't take the job.
Employee meals are simply another convoluted system of rewarding employees, in my opinion it's a lot less messy to just pay the employee a wage that is considered the industry "norm" and the employee can eat ham sandwiches if he wants to while traveling for work.
I guess it really doesn't matter, eventually there will be fewer and fewer people traveling for work thanks to technological advances and also because there will be fewer and fewer jobs....
If I have an employee work 13 hours in a row(a double) should I be required to BUY their lunch? After all they would otherwise be forced to financially shell out for food while "on" the clock(during their paid lunch/dinner break)
I give people money, they do a job that may require a uniform, training, travel, gas to get to work, gas to get home, hair cuts, shaving, etc.
Frankly as a business owner and also as someone that's been an employee, cash in the pocket of the employee is better than ME or them deciding benefits.
Happy employees are productive employees, the more work that is involved to make them happy means a loss of productivity.
My previous job when we wanted to "keep" people over to finish a project, we would buy lunch/dinner/pizza/perch/subs/steaks or whatever since they obviously had no option to either go home, or hadn't had advanced notice to bring along extra food. I guess I just prefer to treat employees as humans, not robots.
I accepted my current position (which is not grunt work as I think you might be assuming) based on a salary and benefits I negotiated. I also accepted it with the flexible travel policy in mind.
I don't have time on-site to go shopping for a weeks worth of brown bag and at-home meals, nor the ability in most cases to store/prepare them.
I am expected to manage the amount of money I get a day to provide all my meals and necessities (snacks, water, etc..). If I go over my allotment, I pay the difference. We are not expected to eat unhealthy McMeals to save money, as in the long run, my employer also provides my health insurance.
If the travel policy wasn't designed like it is, I wouldn't had accepted it.
Just my two cents..