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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work at a place that has a lot of hourly workers, and they are in no way interchangeable. Nannying is an important  skilled job, but there are many important skilled jobs that are hourly.

At my workplace, if we close when you’re scheduled to work, you get paid. If we are open and you don’t show up, you don’t get paid. Snow days are a bit of a gray area because it’s the family that’s deciding if they’re “open” or not. That relies on you to be sensible and humane. But when you offered safe transportation, assuming it really was safe, the nanny should have either, or not been paid[/quote]

Yeah, I don't get why this person is so invested in hourly jobs generally involving interchangeable employees.  There are plenty of hourly jobs that require employees to not just have specific skills, but also knowledge of workplace logistics, procedures, and even personalities, such that someone who technically has the skills but lacks the specific experience in that workplace can't just smoothly step in.  It's really not helping her case.  [/quote]

There are very few hourly jobs in a workplace that [i]won’t allow one worker to exchange shifts with another worker[/i].  Most nannies can’t do that, as they’re the only one, and they are integral to the household functioning during the week.[/quote]

That has nothing to do with anything. Hourly workers are hourly workers and are paid... hourly. Whether they’re anesthesiologists, nurses, lawyers, or house cleaners. It’s not a matter of how important or skilled you are. It’s a matter of how you’ve agreed to be paid. There is no pay category of “hourly worker but super special important so not actually paid hourly”. There are super special important jobs that are hourly. How is this controversial?[/quote]

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