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From: Pd on 16 Mar 2010 08:42 Conor <conor(a)gmx.co.uk> wrote: > On 15/03/2010 18:35, Pd wrote: > > > > The rates I quoted were current. Firms can easily pay double what the > > temp gets, but I've never heard of temps getting less than the fulltime > > workers, and I've both been a temp and hired temps since 1982. > > In haulage, it is quite common for temps to get less than employees. > Don't assume all sectors of agency work is the same as yours. I wasn't. I don't work in the NHS, I just used them because their rates were easily findable online. But that trend of paying temps more than salaried employees fitted across clerical, teaching, nursing, metalworkers and other trades... basically anything that you couldn't get unskilled (and possibly illegal) immigrant workers to do, temps got paid more. What sort of temp workers do you get in the haulage industry? Are they just casual workers, or actual temps who fill in for employees who are off sick or training etc? Not that any of it matters, it was just an offhand comparison with Tim Cook getting $22 million for filling in while Steve was recovering. But sometimes, on the internet, it's terribly important to be Right. -- Pd
From: Peter Ceresole on 16 Mar 2010 10:07 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > But sometimes, on the internet, it's terribly important to be Right. Omigod! Someone is wrong on the Internet! <http://xkcd.com/386/> What is it people say? LOL? -- Peter
From: Sara on 16 Mar 2010 12:25 In article <1jffpc4.eg68y108rlw0N%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Not when I was a temp, they didn't. The firm paid more for your services > > than they paid for the regulars; the temp got considerably less. The > > temping agency takes its cut... > > Every temp I have worked with and every temp I have recruited to fill a > post got paid more than the permies. Yup. Same here. -- Sara Hurrah - the weather has cheered up
From: Pd on 16 Mar 2010 13:07 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > > But sometimes, on the internet, it's terribly important to be Right. > > Omigod! Someone is wrong on the Internet! <http://xkcd.com/386/> As soon as that xkcd was published, I printed it out and gave it to my wife. "This explains everything." Now she understands. -- Pd
From: Rowland McDonnell on 16 Mar 2010 17:51
Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Not when I was a temp, they didn't. The firm paid more for your services > > > than they paid for the regulars; the temp got considerably less. The > > > temping agency takes its cut... > > > > Every temp I have worked with and every temp I have recruited to fill a > > post got paid more than the permies. > > Yup. Same here. Not here. Almost all the temps I've worked with got less than the permies. Except those with the specialist skills - the ones in demand because of their particular abilities. And that seems to be standard in all industries. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |