I don't know a lot about this type of arrangement. So by this do you mean
that you pay them even when they don't need to come in for a tour? It seems
like it might be easier to pay someone as an hourly employee in this case.
If they can't come in, they don't get paid. The question about what to do if
there is no tour scheduled it a little vaguer... I'm not an HR whiz, though,
so this is just my gut reaction.
Erica S. Maniez
Museum Director, Issaquah Historical Society
425/392-3500
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www.issaquahhistory.org
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Franny Kent
  Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 7:27 AM
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  Subject: Contractual workers


  Hello Listers...

  Does anyone out their manage or know of an institution that hires people
on a contractual basis meaning that:
  A contractor is hired and paid for their AVAILABILITY(i.e. every tuesday
for 30 weeks to give a group a tour) and they get paid regardless of whether
or not a group has signed up?
  What do you do if that person has a personal emergency (they're sick,
family emergency, etc.) since you hired them under with the understanding
that they will be paid regardless of whether they 'teach' a group on their
'day'? How do  you make it clear that if they have an emergency on a given
day THEY WILL NOT GET PAID because they 'broke' the contract in a way,
because of the (hopefully) one time emergency?

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