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Author Topic: Overtime for hourly staff Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 청주시, 경북도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 01-03-2008 09:18 PM                     quote: Monte L Fullmer like some states will allow lower subminimum pay scales, but the restriction on using these lower pay rates are too much of a hassle, and even with legal issues, to where the employer will go the easy route and follow fed min payscale rulings. The only way a state could allow someone to be paid less than federal minimum wage is if the employee was exempt from the federal minimum but not the state minimum. But if you are subject to both then you will always be given the higher of the 2. Also, states can specify a higher min than federal but also have "subminimum" classes that are, still, higher than federal.  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-04-2008 08:37 AM                        As an employeer, the more I pay, the more excellence I can expect from my employees. This is because I can attract better people. My experience in cinemas is that very low paid people are unmotivated and with an attitude to boot. Not only that but better paid, highly motivated people generally do a better job, are self starting, and work better both as team members, but also as "company" people. A good balance should cost no more than a whole lot of cheaper workers. (Just ask Costco...they pay more than most other retail.) Louis  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-04-2008 12:34 PM                     It's the old marketing ploy: "You get what you pay for." A career occupation against the "McJob" occupation. And if the mgr also has been trained in the "McJob" mode, you DEFINITELY will get what you pay for.  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 01-04-2008 02:42 PM                        It is a sad fact that movie theaters have always paid on the low side to workers, managers and outside the union projectionist to projection as well. I have done this from 1972 and I have done other things at the same time to supplement my income. Now when I was in really busy theaters often the commission more than made up for the weekly pay rate. I don't have a commission with my current employers when I owned theaters I always paid commission I felt it helped out the employee and made them a better manager of people and they certainly watched to be sure shortages didn't happen then as well. I don't know what will happen in the future of this business certainly the new minimum wage laws over the next two years will have us paying the employees more, the sad truth is when the minimum wage went up (by about 11%) I got nothing extra to my pay. I asked about this and was told you don't make minimum you make more to which I answered so I'm now 11% behind where I was! Still I didn't get a raise! I have to wonder how many other managers didn't get an increase when all the other employees got an increase. That is a problem I see with minimum wage in the old days (OH LORD) 70's and 80's, the folks I worked for then gave me an increase in salary of the same % as the increase in minimum wage but now I don't know that it happens. Or am I all wet?  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 01-04-2008 09:07 PM                        No, you are right. Perhaps we will soon see managers paid the same as new staff members. Louis  |  IP: Logged Scott McGuire Film Handler Posts: 94 From: Elmira, NY/United States Registered: Oct 2007 posted 01-05-2008 02:35 AM                     In the past i had a job that started at min wage and i was given a raise for every 6 months of service. I was there for 3 years and due to min wage increases in NY a new hire was making exactly the same amount that i was despite my time of service. this pretty much negated all of the 6 raised i had been given. It made sense to me that i should be making the same percentage higer than min wage that i was when min wage went up, it didn't seem to make sense to the employer however. after a bit of an argument about this i quit. it really mabe me angry that a person on their firts day was making the same wage as i was even though i had been given all those raises.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-05-2008 02:56 AM                     Gee, by 2009 when min wage hit's 7.25s/hr .. wonder what the price of a tix would be then, let alone what mgrs and ast.mgrs. gonna make?  |  IP: Logged Scott McGuire Film Handler Posts: 94 From: Elmira, NY/United States Registered: Oct 2007 posted 01-05-2008 04:09 AM                     It is already at 7 something in NY. don't make min wage any more so i'm not exactly sure what it is.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 01-05-2008 10:34 AM                     quote: Monte Fullmer when min wage hit's 7.25s/hr .. wonder what ... mgrs and ast.mgrs. gonna make? Why, $7.50, of course!  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-06-2008 03:16 AM                     fully agree..think that they're gonna get a break in making a decent salary in the future? NOT!  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 01-07-2008 03:34 PM                     I know of a manager, working out of Ohio at the time, who lost an assistant because the assistant got a job at Church's Fried Chicken for $10 an hour...starting wage. This was in the late 90's.  |  IP: Logged

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