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Maybe meant $2.00 USD per hour?
by timbit42 4y ago
Maybe meant $2.00 USD per hour?
- kragen 4y agoNo, Argentine wages are given per month, not per hour.
- xeromal 4y agoAre they paid per month as well? I've always thought that is an ideal way to receive wages. Pay all bills due for the month and live off the rest.
- kragen 4y agoThey are, but typically wages are paid after working, rather than beforehand. So paying wages monthly rather than, for example, twice a month, amounts to an interest-free loan of two weeks' worth of wages by the employee to their employer, which to me seems unjust. (Thus the Biblical injunction to pay your workers before their sweat has dried.) This interest-free loan is particularly galling when we're experiencing 6% inflation per month, so your wages are worth 3% less when you get them.
- xeromal 4y agoWho gets paid before working? I haven't seen that at least here in the states I've worked in the US. Usually you work to the pay period and receive the prorated amount of days you worked. Sometimes you even have to work for two pay periods which can equate to misery if you haven't saved up. lol. Edit: I reread your comment and understand now! Sorry about that.
- kragen 4y agoEmployees in good bargaining positions frequently receive signing bonuses, so they do get paid before working. Those aren't the people taking minimum-wage jobs.
- projektfu 4y agoAttorneys... (I kid, I kid... Obviously attorneys on payroll do not get paid up front, just indy attorneys on retainer).
- standardUser 4y ago"Who gets paid before working?" We are often expected to pay companies either ahead of time or on-demand when purchasing goods and services. When we sell our labor, we generally are forced to accept a payment scheme designed by our employer that results in us getting paid much later, with the employer holding our money in the meantime.
- tyingq 4y agoCompanies that force "net payment terms" on their vendors are also an interesting setup. Some of them force crazy terms like "Net 90"...90 days after an invoice that can only be submitted once a month. So they are taking labor and paying out sometimes 120 days later.
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- standardUser 4y agoYou make some really good points. In fact, in any system that valued people over companies, you'd expect people to be paid for their services on demand, if not ahead of time.
- kragen 4y agoEmployers have more power than employees in the employer-employee relationship, so they can extract concessions like this.