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| | | old time rules | Aug 22, 2022 |
Daryo wrote:
what are the specifics of the contract
as a standard good old time rule, if the hiring head office is, say, in Warsaw, they should be considered in a mission from Warsaw to the place of the camp, regardless of their actual routes (from Brazil or Malaysia to, say, Greece), imho,
Anyway they can elaborate the matter and lay stress on being in a mission. Their employer's/hiring head office is located out of the camp, for sure.
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| On meaningful numbers! | Aug 23, 2022 |
Daryo wrote:
Stretching (a supposedly guaranteed?) monthly salary to every hour of the day in every day of the month for the purpose of calculating "the hourly rate" makes for some very "creative accounting". Applying the same "cosmetic surgery" to the average UK salary (£568 per week for regular pay in June 2022) you could claim that people work in UK for £3.37 per hour (£568 / 7days / 24hrs).
How would you calculate it, if you were the one supposed to be on-call 24/7?
Daryo wrote:
What is relevant and meaningful is the number of hours effectively worked in one month.
What would you charge per an hour of interpretation, if you were to provide that service?
Do kindly honor/humor us with an [or, otherwise, a hypothetical] answer, even if you don't [currently] provide interpretation!
Daryo wrote:
and many other forgotten "small details".
I have a feeling the matter is being handled, or otherwise entangled, behind closed doors now, so we might never know!
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United Kingdom
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Sadek_A wrote: Daryo wrote:
Stretching (a supposedly guaranteed?) monthly salary to every hour of the day in every day of the month for the purpose of calculating "the hourly rate" makes for some very "creative accounting". Applying the same "cosmetic surgery" to the average UK salary (£568 per week for regular pay in June 2022) you could claim that people work in UK for £3.37 per hour (£568 / 7days / 24hrs). How would you calculate it, if you were the one supposed to be on-call 24/7? Daryo wrote:
What is relevant and meaningful is the number of hours effectively worked in one month. What would you charge per an hour of interpretation, if you were to provide that service? Do kindly honor/humor us with an [or, otherwise, a hypothetical] answer, even if you don't [currently] provide interpretation! Daryo wrote:
and many other forgotten "small details". I have a feeling the matter is being handled, or otherwise entangled, behind closed doors now, so we might never know!
The logics of someone on a piece-rate pay system and someone on a monthly retainer are two entirely different beasts. These contracts look like some kind of "full-time employment" for a limited period, so you can't employ the same optics as for "independent contractors" paid by the hour.
Another element - anyone who had to organise a team providing any kind of services will know the difference between the 24/7 availability of the team (the contract with Frontex) and the rota of each team member (contracts with individual team members) which may include periods of stand-by and of effective work, BUT which will NEVER be 24/7 for any individual team members. Simply physically impossible.
To go back to square one: there are probably a lot of legitimate grievances, but claiming to be ‘paid under €2.50 an hour’ is simply farcical nonsense, not worthy of a negotiator expecting to be taken seriously.
[Edited at 2022-09-03 12:33 GMT]
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This marks some good news on the part of relevant authorities to defend interpreters and translators rights. However, the accusation should be justified and not raised unwarrantedly. Sadly, we suffer the same low payment problems across the globe here and there, and we need to have some relevant laws in place to be enforced by a relevant caring body entitled to defend us.
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| Not surprised | Oct 27, 2022 |
A well known bad agency. To avoid absolutely!
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