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Does this seem wrong to you? - Ugly Stepchild

Posted: Dec 13, 2011

I am currently per-diem with a company that requires per-diems to work 2 holidays a year and we have to phone in to beg for work (0.7 cpl) BUT we are not included in any bonuses or the holiday gift card because we are only per-diems. We make money for the company and are reimbursed at a pauper's rate with no other benefits but we aren't even included in a tiny holiday gift card. Feels like a huge slap in the face. Is it even legal to require a "per-diem" with no guarantee of work or benefits to work holidays or be fired?

Why do you do this to yourself. Dont give me bills, kids etc. - There are other places. Nobody SM

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should think this is the best they deserve. NO, this isnt right, you KNOW it isnt right. Unless, you are actively trying to find something else, then never mind (said in best Emily Litella voice. Remember her?)

I have found something else - Ugly

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which I start in a couple of weeks but its so disappointing. I love my supervisors, dictators, platform, etc. I just don't understand how this company is able to get away with it.

They get away with it for the reasons you say, good dictators, - platform etc. But none of those SM

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could be good enough to make up for crappy pay, and bad treatment. And how good can a supervisor be if you are having to call to beg for work? I am glad you are leaving. I hate to see our sista MTs accepting horrible pay/treatment.

Unfortunately the supervisors - Ugly

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are being treated badly too. They would give me the work but they have to answer to the main supervisor's henchwoman who is slowly but surely pushing the supervisors out. Get this....regular employees get a ton of earned time off but you cannot take more than 1 week vacation in the summer until you have worked for the company for 10 years AND a coworker had her sister-in-law die this past summer and she was given a hard time about taking the day of the funeral off and was asked to make up the time THAT DAY. MT's so need a union to fight this stuff. Thanks for your support. Its nice to know that I'm not wrong for feeling like I'm being mistreated.

But until a union is here, do what YOU can do. - Investigate pay. Chances are that

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will be where questionable behaviour will be found. They know, as women, most of us are used to letting hubby do the money thing. And also, many women feel they are just lucky to have a job. But if we insist on knowing how we are paid, what do you think would happen. And they cannot refuse to explain it. It is your RIGHT to know how you are paid, how your lines are calculated and how your paycheck is arrived at.

hate to burst that bubble but in my 38 years-union has always - "BEEN ON THE WAY" nm

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And that is why I say until then do what YOU can. Dont wait - til there are others to join you. nm

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One in a MTSO with work expectations that seem to border - on the illegal, someone who SM

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afford to (not a primary wage earner) needs to investigate the pay at MTSOs like this. You need to know exactly how you are paid and if it is not on the up and up, do something. Arent there legal associations that help for little or no up front money? Until we start standing up for ourselves, why should the MTSO treat us any better?

so hard to garner support from others - Ugly

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in an economy like this where everyone is just thankful to be working even if they are mistreated. I asked my day supervisor for a reference and she had me use her home number because she was afraid of them finding out she was willing to help me. Its like that for everyone. There are so many more of us then them but it will take a collective standing up to change anything and everyone I've talked to is too afraid to be out of a job. I hope my new company works out better. The pay and schedule is better. Just hoping for good dictators and a good platform. Change is hard for me so this will not be easy...but then nothing worthwhile is.

Dont worry about support from others. Do what YOU can do. - If enough just do that, SM

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soon there will be a group of others. But, once MTSO see we are getting serious about OUR money, including knowing how we are paid, maybe something will change anyway.

Ugly - Realist

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I have always loved the saying, "There are no victims, there are only volunteers." You deserve the kind of treatment you will accept. You can do better for yourself, and I hope that this new company will be the new beginning you need!

so hard to garner support from others - Winnie

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I say call on the Occupyer/Wall Street protestors to arrive at their headquarters.

Expectations - Old Hand

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I know how you feel. We need a union and then for each and every one of us to get a visit from our very own union goons with the threat if we don't start standing up for outselves, then our goons will break our kneecaps.

Don't flame me - Beentheredonethat

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The reason companies "get away with it" and *it* being subjective is because MTs stay hired on. Staying tells them it's okay.

IS MTSO USING PER DIEM ILLEGALLY? - Yochana

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Definition: Per diem is a Latin team meaning "per day" or "each day," as in "daily". Per diem refers to very short-term temporary employment that consists of just a few days of employment to fill in for a sick or vacationing full time employee.

The term "per diem" also may be used to refer to the daily allotted sum of money to cover expenses for the day while the employee works, such as meals, gas, and lodging if needed.

They say... - Ugly

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that they have had their human resources people ensure that everything is legal and that it is because there is no "regular schedule" (I have to ask every day for work) but that it is legal for them to require 2 holidays a year because it is not a "set schedule". I think this must be illegal though, I just don't see how it can't be.

I did per diem for a while, but I was not required -sm - XXX

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to work holidays. They called me when they had extra work, period. If I could do it I would. I did not expect any bonuses or gift cards, etc. I would presume it is not legal to attach conditions, but if you signed a contract for IC with them with these conditions then, yes, I would say it is legal as you accepted their terms. If you did not sign anything to that effect then, no, I would say it is not legal. You are underpaid as well, I was doing per diem for 0.10 cpl. I was paid for the inconvenience of no notice from them of needing me to work and for helping them clean up backlogs of work. I don't do work for them anymore as it dried up but contact them now and then so if anything permanent should ever open up they will hopefully call me. It was a good place with good pay, smaller MTSO. I only work for small(er) companies as I do not want all the *ELL most of you go thru with horrid ESLs, no work, pool work, pages of account rules/specifics, QA limits,etc. I have BTDT with my first acute care job years ago. Good per diem jobs are out there, just not so easy to find is all. I would tell them, no I won't commit to 2 holiday's and if you don't like it then I guess we are not a good fit, goodbye. I would stop begging them for work and move on.

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