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]