paid snow days?

[MarkG]

I've got 3 guys on fulltime pay. We haven't worked all week. I don't pay overtime though so it works both ways for all of us. The guys like to know that they will be getting the same wage every week for mortgages etc. They get minimum holiday days but I give them a paid day extra off to Lincolnshire show and pay for tickets for them and their wives. I'm thinking of giving them a day off for their birthdays aswell. Sometimes it's worth more than a financial bonus.

[Scottie]

Wife told me that if staff in Slovakia are told to stay off from work they get 60% of their pay for that day. That seems fair to me. Like most companies, if we are not out, we're not earning, so no pay and no commision for the rep.

[MarkG]

Hi Scottie

Are you from Thorner near Wetherby?

We've done quite a bit of landscaping work around there.

[CHIP]

I have paid employee for this week, but if this snow keeps up, i think i will need 2 pay him just what he NEEDS to get by....bills, food ect! Melt god damn it, melt.

[mixedangased]

:lol:i wish lol

[ben lightfoot]

Ok so my first poll so should have made myself more clear, i was more trying to find out if the employees managed to make it to the yard and then only be turned away unpaid

[Andy Collins]

Ah thats different. IMO if your staff make the effort, and through no fault of their own have to go home, then the employer should reward them for their efforts and pay them a days pay. Otherwise what incentive would they have to bother?

[felixthelogchopper]

In this case, it is up to the employer to contact their workers to save them what is probably a hazardous journey. Only a poor employer would allow his staff to come in knowing there was no work and they would be going straight home. I had this with a nursery I did work for and, guess what, I don't work for them anymore

[Lee Winger]

If any employer can afford to pay snow days in this economic climate, then they're a far better business person than me..........

[WoodED]

my employee is on a 0 hours contract so if he dont work he dont get paid. i cant afford to pay him if we are not earning.

 

yh im one of them self employed subies working for a small firm that dnt get paid,, and the worst thing is,, i dnt no wheather work is cancalled untill 30 mins befor i leave home to get to the yard so i dnt have time to book in a days work for another company