Paying workers extra for showing up on time

[chanel]

Acting on orders from Gov. Chris Christie, the South Jersey Port Corp. is no longer awarding bonuses to workers who show up on time.

The agency's board eliminated giving a day's pay for every two consecutive months that workers showed up no more than 30 minutes late. The board also ended the 40-year practice that allowed workers to convert vacation and sick days to cash.

The agency also planned to eliminate giving free TVs to union employees at the Broadway or Beckett Street terminals who work four years with no accidents.

South Jersey public agency ends practice of paying workers extra for showing up on time | NJ.com

They could even be late; just less than 30 mins.

This is the kind of crap that boils my blood.

Can anyone think of any other job where people get bonuses for just showing up?

 

[WillowTree]

Acting on orders from Gov. Chris Christie, the South Jersey Port Corp. is no longer awarding bonuses to workers who show up on time.

The agency's board eliminated giving a day's pay for every two consecutive months that workers showed up no more than 30 minutes late. The board also ended the 40-year practice that allowed workers to convert vacation and sick days to cash.

The agency also planned to eliminate giving free TVs to union employees at the Broadway or Beckett Street terminals who work four years with no accidents.

South Jersey public agency ends practice of paying workers extra for showing up on time | NJ.com

They could even be late; just less than 30 mins.

This is the kind of crap that boils my blood.

Can anyone think of any other job where people get bonuses for just showing up?

Are these worker idiots union? Never mind. I just read the whole article.. they izzzz

 

[chanel]

29 employees are non-union. But these boards in NJ have been operating with very little oversight and are filled with political patronage jobs. It's not called the "Soprano State" for nuttin.

Unions try to get the best deal they can for their members. And in a corrupt state like NJ, it was like a bunch of little kids in a candy store.

Four years without an accident and you are awarded with a TV? Do they think people deliberately get hurt? Maybe...

 

[Si modo]

Heh.

What a joke. Unbelievable.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Make this example # 321,234,643,225...of why the government needs to shrink.

 

[Si modo]

Make this example # 321,234,643,225...of why the government needs to shrink.

LOL! I first read that as 'the government needs a shrink'.

Both versions work.

 

[DaGoose]

29 employees are non-union. But these boards in NJ have been operating with very little oversight and are filled with political patronage jobs. It's not called the "Soprano State" for nuttin.

Unions try to get the best deal they can for their members. And in a corrupt state like NJ, it was like a bunch of little kids in a candy store.

Four years without an accident and you are awarded with a TV? Do they think people deliberately get hurt? Maybe...

No. It's an incentive to help employees develop safer work practices. And it works.

When you compare the cost of injuries (the average injury costs $38,000 in direct and indirect costs) you quickly see how cost effective incentives really are.

Estimating and calculating the true cost of workplace injuries

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[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Acting on orders from Gov. Chris Christie, the South Jersey Port Corp. is no longer awarding bonuses to workers who show up on time.

The agency's board eliminated giving a day's pay for every two consecutive months that workers showed up no more than 30 minutes late. The board also ended the 40-year practice that allowed workers to convert vacation and sick days to cash.

The agency also planned to eliminate giving free TVs to union employees at the Broadway or Beckett Street terminals who work four years with no accidents.

South Jersey public agency ends practice of paying workers extra for showing up on time | NJ.com

They could even be late; just less than 30 mins.

This is the kind of crap that boils my blood.

Can anyone think of any other job where people get bonuses for just showing up?

All I can say is they were smart to end those incentive programs.

I mean an easier way to get people to show up on time is this, late 3 times and you are fired.

 

[Lovebears65]

Acting on orders from Gov. Chris Christie, the South Jersey Port Corp. is no longer awarding bonuses to workers who show up on time.

The agency's board eliminated giving a day's pay for every two consecutive months that workers showed up no more than 30 minutes late. The board also ended the 40-year practice that allowed workers to convert vacation and sick days to cash.

The agency also planned to eliminate giving free TVs to union employees at the Broadway or Beckett Street terminals who work four years with no accidents.

South Jersey public agency ends practice of paying workers extra for showing up on time | NJ.com

They could even be late; just less than 30 mins.

This is the kind of crap that boils my blood.

Can anyone think of any other job where people get bonuses for just showing up?

All I can say is they were smart to end those incentive programs.

I mean an easier way to get people to show up on time is this, late 3 times and you are fired.

I agree, but the thing is most of these people are union workers and we know you cant fire a union person no matter what they do! I am not a union supporter if you cant do your job your fired PERIOD!!!! Why get so many chances?

 

[DaGoose]

South Jersey public agency ends practice of paying workers extra for showing up on time | NJ.com

They could even be late; just less than 30 mins.

This is the kind of crap that boils my blood.

Can anyone think of any other job where people get bonuses for just showing up?

All I can say is they were smart to end those incentive programs.

I mean an easier way to get people to show up on time is this, late 3 times and you are fired.

I agree, but the thing is most of these people are union workers and we know you cant fire a union person no matter what they do! I am not a union supporter if you cant do your job your fired PERIOD!!!! Why get so many chances?

Please show me a link or example where ANY worker, union or not, can't be fired "no matter what they do".

I'll be waiting but not holding my breath......

.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Acting on orders from Gov. Chris Christie, the South Jersey Port Corp. is no longer awarding bonuses to workers who show up on time.

The agency's board eliminated giving a day's pay for every two consecutive months that workers showed up no more than 30 minutes late. The board also ended the 40-year practice that allowed workers to convert vacation and sick days to cash.

The agency also planned to eliminate giving free TVs to union employees at the Broadway or Beckett Street terminals who work four years with no accidents.

South Jersey public agency ends practice of paying workers extra for showing up on time | NJ.com

They could even be late; just less than 30 mins.

This is the kind of crap that boils my blood.

Can anyone think of any other job where people get bonuses for just showing up?

Yes, I worked at one.

It was a shit dead end job who's only requirments were being able to type and speak clearly enough to be understood eventually.

If you showed up on time and stayed until it was time to go home, you go $.50 more an hour.

 

[blastoff]

I don't have a problem with rewards for safety issues. Accidents and injuries can have far reaching affects at a workplace.

But rewards for showing up on time for the job are ridiculous. Seems to me being where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there is point one in a job description. If you can't get to work on time there should be appropriate consequences, including termination for repeat offenders.

 

[bripat9643]

No. It's an incentive to help employees develop safer work practices. And it works.

When you compare the cost of injuries (the average injury costs $38,000 in direct and indirect costs) you quickly see how cost effective incentives really are.

Estimating and calculating the true cost of workplace injuries

.

Where's the evidence that it works? Don't workers already have a powerful incentive to not get hurt, like the benefit of not getting hurt?

 

[Lovebears65]

All I can say is they were smart to end those incentive programs.

I mean an easier way to get people to show up on time is this, late 3 times and you are fired.

I agree, but the thing is most of these people are union workers and we know you cant fire a union person no matter what they do! I am not a union supporter if you cant do your job your fired PERIOD!!!! Why get so many chances?

Please show me a link or example where ANY worker, union or not, can't be fired "no matter what they do".

I'll be waiting but not holding my breath......

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teachers. They are put on administrative leave then moved to another school. IT happens all the time especially if this teacher is high on tenor.. Example,. Wisconsin. Teachers called in sick to protest. They should have gotton fired since a lot were shown protesting . Did they NOPE!!

 

[chanel]

I would think "not losing a limb" or "not dying" would be a better safety incentive than a TV, but maybe that's just me.

As many of you know, I teach high school and I am real ballbuster when it comes to tardiness and truancy. I think "just showing up" ON TIME is one of the most important responsibilities schools can teach. Unfortunately, many teachers and schools see this as one of the least. Hence, employers are screaming that they can find decent help. No duh...

 

[DaGoose]

I agree, but the thing is most of these people are union workers and we know you cant fire a union person no matter what they do! I am not a union supporter if you cant do your job your fired PERIOD!!!! Why get so many chances?

Please show me a link or example where ANY worker, union or not, can't be fired "no matter what they do".

I'll be waiting but not holding my breath......

.

teachers. They are put on administrative leave then moved to another school. IT happens all the time especially if this teacher is high on tenor.. Example,. Wisconsin. Teachers called in sick to protest. They should have gotton fired since a lot were shown protesting . Did they NOPE!!

Bullshit. If you're going to "fire" every worker who has played hooky from work you'll effectively "fire" about 98% of the workforce.

Please show me ONE labor contrct that says someone can't be fired NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO.

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[Two Thumbs]

Please show me a link or example where ANY worker, union or not, can't be fired "no matter what they do".

I'll be waiting but not holding my breath......

.

teachers. They are put on administrative leave then moved to another school. IT happens all the time especially if this teacher is high on tenor.. Example,. Wisconsin. Teachers called in sick to protest. They should have gotton fired since a lot were shown protesting . Did they NOPE!!

Bullshit. If you're going to "fire" every worker who has played hooky from work you'll effectively "fire" about 98% of the workforce.

Please show me ONE labor contrct that says someone can't be fired NO MATTER WHAT THEY DO.

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Lovebear,

Hyperbole is lost on people like goose.

He knows union members have to go far out of thier way to get fired, especially when compared to non-union workers.

take a look at the idiocy of 98% getting canned for playing hooky. Everyone knows you can call off from work, but most honest people only do it when the need a break, and not on a regular basis. Or even dropped the bar down to the point they demand a bonus for only being 30 minutes late over a short period of time.

 

[WillowTree]

paying someone extra to come to work on time is just plain retarded.

 

[signelect]

The problem is not the union workers, it is the idiots that agreed to the outrageous demands. I think maybe a search of their financial records might reveal some interesting facts. Your reward for doing your job according to the rules is getting to keep it. As we dig in to this mess we are going to find some very ugly practices that the people we elected agreed to inorder to get votes.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Leave it to unions to require extra incentives to actually show up and do what they are getting paid to do. Lazy fucks.