By observing productive and non-productive time a manager can reasses staffing on an hourly, weekly, quarterly, or annual basis, minimizing cost for the facility. With careful management projections can be made for the upcoming years budget. The mananger has a constant struggle to maintain adequate staffing without exceeding his/her staffing budget. (Davis, 2008) The goal should be more creativity and productivity from each employee, and less non-productivity, which amounts to paying employee for time when they are utilizing their time properly. If employees are doing more socializing with other employees and friends on Facebook than their job duties, it can make for much frustration for
Some of the fringe benefits of working at IndyGo are Vacations are progressive up to six week for 28 years of service, 32 hours of personal time, up to 1800 hours of paid sick time, paid time off for court appearances, free transportation for employee and dependents, along with uniform and tool allowance. A. When asking the labor relations person Michael Birch he estimated the cost per employee for fringe benefits averages around $32.00. He could not give me a definite figure as he is new to the position and because others are current in labor relations they were not willing to discuss the cost at this time. Q6.
As far as being 100% effective goes, the employees may still be able to effectively do their jobs, but she has to take into consideration the fact that by not getting new equipment, the methods in which they do their jobs is outdated. If they wait to make the purchase until prices go down to a level the supervisor finds satisfactory, the employees may no longer be able to work at the “100% efficient” level. I would also explain the concept of Moore’s Law, the prediction that computer performance would double every 18 months, to the supervisor. This would allow her to see how important it is to stay
Based on a graph presented by David Cooper and Doug Hall in the report “Raising the Federal Minimum Wage to $10.10 Would Give Working Families, And the Overall Economy, a MuchNeeded Boost,” throughout the United States, 11.4 to 27.5% of children (varying by state) have parents who would be affected by the raise in minimum wage. Thus, raising the minimum wage would leave more money for parents of families in poverty to buy their children food, clothes, shoes, and other necessities that, in many low income cases, must be rationed. Amongst those who are struggling to survive off of minimum wage, in 2011, half were under the age of 25 (United State). Many college students struggle to balance time for academics, extracurricular activities, as well as finance: car payments, rent, student loans, food, gas, and many others. One article from USA Today, “How Much Would a MinimumWage Increase Help Students?” by Jackie Tempera, features a college student, Christin King.
He then explained that a family to sustain their level of income would put in longer shifts would be a coping mechanism in its own. And finally, the family after they used those two coping mechanisms and yet they feel they did not yet sustained their relative income, the go into the debt! Reich believed that families when they are rushing to the credit would fuel the bubble. However, those coping mechanisms have been exhausted and they are bringing more harm to the society daily. According to some medical statistics, in 2007 the Americans spent roughly $ 23.6 billion in sleeping
There are over 170 employees who’s telecommuting ability hinges on the successful completion of the project, and by extension every single one of their clients will feel the impact if the timeline isn’t met. If there are any difficulties with setup inside the employee’s homes there isn’t a large margin to send new equipment or for the IT group to make it each employee having difficulties before the third quarter begins. The impact would be to have potentially the entire 170 employee’s telecommuter workforce unable to get any meaningful work done. The IT staff would be spread thin and likely cause an increased cost in travel, hotels and overtime for those IT staff who must travel. Client satisfaction and retention could suffer due to longer wait times and lack of company responsiveness due to a decreased work staff if the telecommuters aren’t available.
“This has been awful,” she says. “I went to law school to have a solid profession so I wouldn’t wind up in a situation like this.” Bliss CareerBuilder survey of more than 8,000 workers found nearly a fourth saying they may be able to make their retirement money back in a year or two; 73% believe it will take them up to six years of extra work to recoup their lost savings. CareerBuilder’s Jason Ferrara says that while they’ll face the same challenges as their young colleagues, many will be better off, since their knowledge and experience will work to their advantage. Slim comfort to the one in ten who say they’ll never be able to retire. In related news, a Fidelity Investment 8 WFC Resources
Essay About Minimum Wage As everyone knows, the new hot topic after the health care issue is about raising the minimum wages to $15. Everyone has their own views about these issues, some people, just by hearing this say yes without thinking about the outcome of it, thinking that they will get paid double the amount then they are now. As research done by James Sherk, in “What is Minimum Wage: Its History and Effects on the Economy”, the BLS says 3.7 million Americans work at minimum wage, which are spilt into 2 category, one was are teenagers who are working while studying, and the other category is drop outs from school. Now lets think about this for a second, if they increased the minimum wages to $15 instead of $8, this will make everyone
Incarceration costs are much higher, normally running around $18,100 per year per inmate, with another $43,756 needed just to build a new cell block. With the information provided I believe the theory of the non-traditional approach of the electronic monitoring is a good way to go to help save money and help local cities on their debts as well. These are in my personal opinion a great approach to the system. The second NON traditional approach with the prison system I’d like to address is the MRT which is a focus on changing how inmates think and make decisions. Counselors hold group sessions twice weekly with 8 to 15 clients per group so that it’s more of a personal feel for the inmates they can better focus on the topics and not feel as pressured.
The New York Times claimed that, “When immigrants do take jobs, they’re hard workers” (Preston and Connelly a1). Therefore, it greatly contributes to America’s retirement system. The presence of immigrants also contributes to America’s long term population growth, necessary to stabilize the overall retirement fund. The Springer Science and Business Media’s journal states that some other countries in the world suffer from the labor shortages and a demographic crunch, in which a very small number of workers will be expected to pay the retirement and health care for elderly people (Gold 409). The ratio of retired people to workers is expected to dramatically increase in the coming decades, which would result in significant changes in the Security System of America’s retirement money.