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Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful
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.
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That's what I thought should happen - it's not really their fault that there is insufficient work, or that management is choosing to delegate projects to some and not others, or send work to other offices that are light on projects.
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Originally Posted by me_dennis
This depends on what the situation is. What was the reason for the work taking 15 hours rather than 5? Was additional scope added? If so, then a Trend or Change order can be issued to charge back to the client. If the work took longer because of productivity issues (ie the employee took their sweet ass time) then that employee should be eating their time. If it was an issue with the Project Manager or whoever preparing the proposal underestimated the work, then the extra time should be taken out of overhead.
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I believe the reason was underestimation and being (ironically) short-staffed (i.e. having to do the design, drafting and modelling, despite not being a drafter, so it takes longer).