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Loss of benefits - Lee
Posted: Jan 13, 2010
Okay, I may be dense, the rest of you may have figured this out long ago! Many times I see comments here about people who cannot get enough work. Well, at my company, if there is a low volume of work and you cannot meet your line count you are placed on part-time status and cannot regain full-time status until you have met your commitment for 90 days. Yes, you lose your benefits....your health insurance, paid holidays, dental/vision, etc. Well, heck, look at the money they save from not providing benefits to those people! Duh! I can be so stupid sometimes:)
Handled differently at my company. - Fingers
[ In Reply To ..]We rarely run so low on work that we cannot meet the minimum line count. I think I have maybe once in the last year. Right now it is low due to snow at the client location. We put on our time sheet that there was not enough work that day to meet the line count. Management looks at your history and the work history to verify this.
No, we are not stripped of our benefits, PTO, etc. However, if your account runs low consistently they may consider giving you a secondary account to keep your production up. It is totally unfair to penalize you if the work is not actually available. Not only does it have a negative impact on your income, but in my opinion that is a waste of a good MT!
Wow! That sounds really draconian. How often does it - Anon
[ In Reply To ..]tend happen to people who have a proven record of working their full 8 hours and only missing when work is genuinely not available?
My company might do this sort of thing with people who're collecting full-time benefits while using work dips as an excuse to actually work part time, but not to full-time workers for whom work really isn't available within a reasonable flex of work schedule. Those are given additional accounts.
Not only draconian, but it doesnt sound LEGAL. - Sounds like lawyer-time, to me! nm
[ In Reply To ..]
No work - Lee
[ In Reply To ..]It happens to many employees with this company quite often throughout the year. Personally, I work on 4-5 accounts on a continuing basis. Around the holidays and spring break there is no enough work to meet a minimum line count. Poof...benefits gone, part-time status. I wonder if it is even legal to enforce such a policy but at meager wages, who can afford to hire an attorney to defend yourself? Two of my accounts are extremely difficult, 2 of them are with clients who specifically requested I do their transcription. If my supervisor needs coverage on a weekend...I'm there. I love what I do and am passionate about it but I'm starting to loss faith.
The only way we lose our benefits if if we do - lt
[ In Reply To ..]not meet production over 3 pay periods in a row. If we do not meet production because of low work, we are not penalized AS LONG AS we note on our timesheet that that is the reason why. They then review our production for the last 3 payperiods and if they see we are meeting production with no problems, then nothing is done. We still maintain FT status.
That sounds reasonable, as far as heading off PT goes - Anon
[ In Reply To ..]although I'm one of those who'd have to be more careful than I am currently in documenting my record.
Not the case here - Lee
[ In Reply To ..]I agree, that does sound reasonable. However, it's not that way here. If there's not enough work, which to me is in no way the employee's fault, you become part-time and lose your benefits.
Loss of benefits - I must work for same co - Rae
[ In Reply To ..]Same here. No work, have 2-3 accts. Cannot hit stated production. Loss of ins, paid vacation, etc. Must be same co. I work for.
This seems totally unfair/unethical to me. - Fingers
[ In Reply To ..]I can understand this practice if you have slackers, and believe me there are many, but what you guys describe simply is not right.
The next time you are faced with this situation, why not talk to your supervisor and actually request more work. If you are told there is none, then I would take that opportunity to discuss your FT status, benefits, PTO, etc. and explain that they are not providing you with FT employment. I would go to higher management, respectfully of course, and state that there needs to be some sort of compromise because you certainly are available to transcribe if the work was there. I would also question the legality of this.
LEE and RAE - I have to ask you this. - Fingers
[ In Reply To ..]Exactly how does one temporarily lose their benefits? What do they do, take you off the medical/dental insurance and then put you back on again? How often does this take place. Do you qualify for PTO and then you don't, and then you do? What if you have a medical or dental appointment? When is your coverage reinstated? Also, what about a 40lK? You're in, then you're out, in, out....??? I do not think employers should be able to play with peoples' lives like this!! Especially if they are the ones not providing you with the work. It sounds like a ploy to force the employees to have their own benefits even if they are part time. Has this actually happened to you? If it were me, I would have to say it needs to be addressed further with management.
Mistake in my post - Fingers
[ In Reply To ..]I meant to say it sounds like a ploy to force you to purchase your own benefits even if you are FULL TIME.
I have the same questions you do. How - does that work? sm/
[ In Reply To ..]Is this Transcend you are talking about? You have to make a certain amount of $$ in the pay period or you lose all your benefits. You also have to record your hours worked but I guess if you work over 40 hours a week, you wouldn't get overtime because you are not paid by the hour, right? If it takes you over 40 hours a week to make the amount of $$ required to not lose your benefits, why do you have to record your hours worked? I don't get this at all. I can't understand how they can do this if they don't provide enough work for you. How is this legal? Does anyone understand all of this?
1200 lpd - Lee
[ In Reply To ..]In our company if you fail to meet your 12000 lines per pay period for 2 consecutive pay periods you are placed on part-time status. You will no longer be paid for holidays, you will not have insurance and this will continue until you complete another 90 days of meeting that 12000 line commitment per pay period. This applies whether there is not enough work to do or whether you are simply lazy and do not complete your line counts. No, I am not talking about Transcend.
To LEE - Fingers
[ In Reply To ..]Thanks for your e mail. We have the same rules that you describe at my company; however, we do not have to work 8 hours, just the 1200 lines per day. I usually get in around 2000. There is an exception to the rule. If there is NO WORK available to you, you indicate that on your time sheet and it is verified by management. They also look at your work history. If you are a "good MT" as you say, on 6 different accounts, with 25 years of experience - honey you are definitely getting a raw deal. People simply cannot live that way. I don't know who you work for but I can tell you they are wasting good MTs and it sounds like their only goal is to save a lot of money. I am not a job hopper myself but I have been forced to change companies a time or two due to losing clients and offshoring, so if I worked my butt off for a company and they did this to me, I would definitely start looking.
I do not name my company, EVER, but if I were you I would look for a smaller U.S. ONLY company with no offshoring who has plenty of work. They cannot afford to over-hire and they demand good MTs and treat you with more respect because they need you. They also tend to leave you on the same couple of accounts, which to me is a no-brainer as far as the quality of work and increased production. Since you already have a job, I would take my time in looking for something that is perfect. I know it is hard right now and it may take some time but what kind of future do you have with this company. You're right, you simply should not have to live like that!!
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