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Casual staff benefits - ideas for negotiations
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Hullo from Australia. I am assiting one of my organisation's Members in the funeral industry to think of creative options for employment benefits that would be considered valuable to casual employees
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Casual staff benefits - ideas for negotiations
posted at 9/11/2012 8:21 PM EDT
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Hullo from Australia. I am assiting one of my organisation's Members in the funeral industry to think of creative options for employment benefits that would be considered valuable to casual employees who already receive a 25% loading on the ordinary hours rate of pay to off-set their lack of entitlement to paid personal/sick and annual leave. Casual employees are entitled to a 4 hour minimum period of engagement which is costly for the business. The company already has a Policy that offers all employees discounted funeral arrangements for family members so Im wondering what my international colleagues have experienced as options of employment value for casual staff please? |
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Re: Casual staff benefits - ideas for negotiations
posted at 9/12/2012 9:03 AM EDT
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Your casual employee wages and hours seem generous (not sure if that is by law or by employer generosity). I would suggest you look at what issue you are trying to solve. Is it a lack of being able to recruit at those wages? What we do in the USA will have little to no bearing on what is done where you are if those employing casual employees in your area offer certain add ons. That said, for many part-time employees, they have no access to paid timeoff (sick or vacation) and receive no extra pay. Nor do most states have any minimum period of engagement. Usually the one benefit of being part time is being able to rearrange/flex your work schedule around school and other non-work-related needs. |
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Re: Casual staff benefits - ideas for negotiations
posted at 9/18/2012 11:11 AM EDT
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The rule-of-thumb for adjusting wages to compensate for lack of employment benefits (primarily, insurance and paid time-off) is 25% to 32%. Whether to take the low-end or the high-end of that range will be based on a number of variables including desire for low-turnover, etc. Wage adjustments are taxable of course whereas as, for example, a full-time employee's pre-tax premium payment for employer-sponsored insurance is not, so items of that type may also guide the percentage of adjustment you provide if net-pay is an important part of the result you're trying to achieve. |
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