Should the concept of "salary" be abolished? Should every working employee get paid by the hour?

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What are your reasons for asking this. Hourly vs Salary payments are traditional. Certain classes of employees "traditionally" get paid a fixed wage despite hours worked, while other workers "traditionally" get paid by the hours they work.

Laws have been crafted to protect both classes. Salaried employees typically stand in place of the employer. He is, in effect, an agent of the employer…he directs the wishes of the employer.

S responsibilities are greater because of this. He has to make decisions in place of the employer. He stands in for the employer.

S compensation is geared to his performance. There is incentive to perform at a high level because of this. S performance determines the success of the employer’s goals.

The greater his responsibilities and the level of performance, the higher his rewardThere is little or no incentive for individual performance for hourly wages, other than the minimum effort required to perform the job. So…tell us the reason for your question.

My reasons are that I see a lot of "salaried exempt" workers who are being raped by their employer, and I think it would be more equitable to pay for each hour worked, rather than screwing people who get salaries. Schelli 7 months ago .

But then, Shelli, where would be the incentive for a higher level of performance. Maybe the answer to your contention is to punish the employer for not fulfilling the terms of the contract he has with the salaried employee .

Companies avoid lots of overtime with salaries.

True, they do, but it is not fair to the worker and should be illegal. Schelli 7 months ago .

The tradition was that the salary person got some security above an hourly worker. But when have you seen that? .

This is called the casualisation of the work force and is a nightmare from the 19th and early 20th Centuries. When people became old or ill they became destitute. If someone will work for less money than you, then you are made destitute.

Legendary text: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressel describes this in action. Tressel died of tb in his forties in the poor ward of a Liverpool Hospital. Brilliant book.

Hugely influential in the creation of welfare socialism in the UK.

No. People should get paid for what they accomplish, not the time they put in.

The flaw with this logic is that if a person can accomplish their job in 1 hour,they still must put in face time the other 39, and more. Schelli 7 months ago .

You used the term rape to describe employer/employee relationship concerning overtime. Rape implies force but since the employee has the right to quit there is no "forced" overtime and therefore no rape.

Generally, any "business" offers a wage it wants to offer and only tweaks that if there are no takers. States, meanwhile, have laws to prevent abuses, not to mandate methods. An example of the former is that as a substitute teacher, I was paid by the day, whatever that day was (arduous or easy, didn't matter.) As an example of the latter, my brother was hourly until his boss put him on salary .

. So he wouldn't have to pay overtime, which is illegal.

Well, I have seen plenty of abuses, and no state laws protecting the workers. Schelli 7 months ago .

Salary workers are generally but not always given more freedom as to when they come and go. I have worked both ways and prefer Salary as punching a time clock can be a pain due to the many Federal and State laws.

I work hourly as a professional, and punch no more time clocks and have no less freedom than a salaried employee; I just don't get raped on OT by having it expected and unpaid. Schelli 6 months ago .

Does an employee paid by hour weekly as an hourly but is not taxed have an workers compensation rights.

Average working hour for 170k salary in food service industry.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.