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Part time employees don't get benefits for the most part .

When did the math with a Accountant years ago on potentially venturing into a private contractor business and hiring employees was startling to see the amount of money Benefits cost.  On average the benefits per employee twenty five+ years ago were close to 3/4 that of base wages.  Call it 5/8 or Greater than 50% whatever, from UI to Insurance and NOT Health Insurance but business Liability coverage, extra tooling or uniforms if used, special fees for Safety Equipment depending on type work, health insurance if offered, Employer SSI Share, etc etc etc.  That booklet we went thru was EYE Popping.  So for a employee making $20/hr, figuratively they cost employer from $34-37/hour.  Drop to Part Time, 60% of those expenses dropped away.  As with UI, disappears as are no longer Full Time and thus NOT eligible so not required to deposit UI Insurance moneys.  There is NO ONE making $18/hr that are not drawing at least $24-28/hour expense to the employer.  Garage mechanics are currently drawing around $40-45/hour, employer generally HAS to make $95 to break even as also pays utilities and structure payments, thus most Garage expense is around $110-150/hour.

Yep got out of the Navy and loafed at old job in gas station for a month at $1.00 a hour and then decided I needed a job . So went to work for a company in town . $1.25 starting wage and 10 cents for night shift . Oh they paid overtime after 7.5 hours and double time after 10.5 hours, straight double time for Saturday or Sunday  . Was making $125 a week take home, and no where to spend it as was working 12 hours a day and 8 on Saturday .
 Scale was $3.25 a hour after 3 years back then .
40 years later at same company , 4 weeks vacation , sick days , pension , paid health insurance and making over $50,000 and still had time to run my own business doing excavating .
  But back then charged $40 a hour for truck and driver , Now truck goes for $95 a hour and driver gets $25 a hour minimum. 
Times change but it seems when making that $3.25 a hour it was good wages and oe could live on it and support a family as well . 

Here in MN the Democrats just introduced a bill that would require anyone working in a refinery to hold a minimum of MN State Apprentice certification to be employed within the facilities . This includes any outside contractor , in state or out of state . (as most Apprentice rate are Union Jobs - it limits the workers who can be there . 
One private contractor NOW EMPLOYED there for last 15 years says he had a call out for a Certified Boiler Maker which he has 10 positions open for next Turn Around in Refinery but there is only 1 person in State now who is not working in that trade - but he would not be allowed to do National Hiring because the way the law is written .
  So it seems when one gets to jobs where more than a warm body is needed a problem arises in having SKILLS in a trade - as those individuals are working , yet the colleges are full of future CEO and Company Executives - but not one wants to get their hands dirty .  

WHAT  !!  NO WORKERS ?? ....... But we will have plenty of Gender Studies, African History, and HOW TO BUILD A SAFE SPACE new workers !!  That should help ?

its alot crap to do to have mechanics on the payroll and if they cant crank it out you are going broke dosent matter what you are charging , and you have absolutly nothing if you dont have satisfiyed customers 

My brother told me yesterday a tool and die maker in the Milwaukee area can get $50 hr starting. There aren't many left and businesses don't want to apprentice people.

Mickey Ds around here advertise $15/hr to start, FEW takers, those that do start do not last.  When I was driving truck, started me at $16/hr, raise after a few months, and another at end of first year, all these people have to do is put in effort and can earn median five figure salaries, increase skills levels can move to six figures easily.  Still NO Takers.

Wow! When I left that industry in 2016 they were paying half that for almost 20 years experience here. Big reason why I left is the newcomers were starting at $17 to $18 and couldn't stick their thumb in their ass

Just had the Amish roof our 70ft long barn. 4 young men ages 15,17, 19,and the 22 year old was the crew Foreman. If we could get the rest of the country to work like them we could make America great again. They used power tools did a good job and had the job done in a day and a half in conditions some would have hesitated to work. They will own their own farms someday.

I think part of the problem is the Democrats push for everyone to go to college. So a lot of kids who could go into the trades endo up going to a third rate college on loans from a big bank and end up with a worthless degree like anthropology. Kids think there is something wrong with getting dirty

Just renewed my Class A CDL, Dropped HAZMAT TANK and PASSENGER BUS.  Kept Multiple Trailer and Motorcycle, $76, to keep HM, is a $83 expense to FBI Background Check, Fingerprint and another $68 to take a Retest of HM Materials required every Two years.  No Longer worth it and is why many Class Drivers getting out of Fuel hauls.  Be lucky to get gas delivered in another few years.

Remains a REQUIREMENT in DOT Licensing, to both be able to READ/WRITE and Speak English.  They seem to ignore that little tidbit.  Noted before where a Latino driver was pulled over, Cop asked him for License and got "No Comprende", showed him a License and he produced his, next step Cop looked at him and QUOTED the Reg, started cutting up the License as Invalid, IMMEDIATELY learned English.

Edited by DMiller - 13 Aug 2023 at 11:04am