Disclaimer: My experience might not be the same as others, also I'm not a civil engineer.
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Originally Posted by core_upt
From my understanding, the company bids on a project based on it taking X amount of hours, Once the project is awarded, each task is given Y amount of hours to complete. As a person works on each task, they bill their hours to the task number.
Here is what I don't get: If the company requires a task to be done in 5 hours, but it actually takes 15 hours, does the employee just 'suck up' the 10 extra hours they worked on it; overtime on their own time?
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The company sucks it up.
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Originally Posted by core_upt
Further, if there isn't a project for a salaried employee to work on, they don't have a number to charge their time to, so they don't get paid.... does this seem normal? If they come into the office, check their email, do no project specific work, shouldn't they be able to charge their time to something instead of using vacation hours???
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Generally, if the employee is full time and salaried, they have an agreement saying they must be paid for 40 hours per week. Again, that is the company's problem if they don't have the work, not the employees. It's only if the employee is a contractor that they're not guaranteed hours. Only during the recession did I see staff working less than 40 hours, it was a choice between that and no job for them.