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Originally Posted by WinnipegFan
We are salary employees with the CBE. This is a seperate position where we temporarily work for Alberta Education. We do this non-stop (weekdays and weekends) until it is finished. The salary job with the CBE we have to do at night in our hotels most of us for many hours trying to compelte our marking of our in school exams, during the day we mark the provinces exams. This is why we are given an honorarium. No where in our initial contract for our salaried position is it included that we will mark all the exams in the province. This is why it is an insult when we do both jobs at the same time to cut our pay in half.
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Ok I get it now I think.
I don't think it's an insult though since it's not cutting pay in half, it's offering half what they used to for a specific job. They're looking for a set of teachers that are willing to do extra work for extra money. If the "demand" is high (i.e. there were twice as many teachers wanting a Alberta Education marking gig as there were gigs, dunno if that's the case but just assuming) then it certainly would look like they could reduce the compensation and still get enough people interested in the job. Sounds like they over-estimated how many people would take the job at a lower rate.
How much a person is "worth" isn't determined just by what they get paid, so if someone takes a job for less it isn't an insult, it's just what the market value for that job is at that time. No one takes them up on it they'll have to increase it to make it more attractive.