Part-time workers

A complement of four full-time and two part-time workers, including a secretary and a coordinator, was considered about average at that time, which now seems very small given the expansions which have occurred The catchment area would be absolutely defined, with the advantage that the team would get to know their local area and its services well, and make the links with other agencies in the community. As in other specialities in psychiatry, the community ethos of treatment relates to links of this kind, as well as to location of services and an emphasis on visits to home and other settings. 

Leverage Resources—Make maximum utilization of all available resources. Several firms have been successful with part-time workers who have been specially trained to conduct validation studies (e.g., place and recover Bis, calibrate thermocouples, take samples). The validation workload can be shared with other departments by having them complete documentation and collect samples. Use external help such as graduate students and retirees during peak workload periods, provided they are adequately trained prior to setting foot in the plant. Obtain vendor and supplier assistance in the I/O and even PQ of equipment and processes. 

Art. 48). The level of follow-up benefits was 70% of the statutory minimum wage or - if this amount was less (e.g. for part-time workers) - 70% of the actual (daily) wage (ex Arts. 51 et seq. WW). The maximum duration of receipt was 2 years this term was extended to VA years for persons aged 51 A years or older on the first day of unemployment. 

Tuition reimbursement for nonbusiness courses Health care for dependents of part-time workers Part-time employees prorated benefits Child care referral and resource... 

An Annual Work Unit (AWU) corresponds to a conventional full-time worker (working 1800 hours per year). A part-time worker is converted into a pro rata AWU. 

I. Administrative Solutions Administrative solutions (such as job rotation tmd part-time workers) seek to reduce exposure or increase operator s ability to endure stress (exercise, stress reduction, and supports). 

The effect of fatigue increases exponentially with time. Thus, it is important to get a rest before the fatigue becomes too high. Do not permit workers to skip their scheduled break. For very high-intensity work (e.g., sorting express packages), use part-time workers. 

Even when the work required is known, the process of determining how many people are needed can be very difficult. The first step is to break down the work required into shifts, with the number of people needed for each shift. The whole process depends on several factors and will be discussed in some detail in the subsequent sections. The criteria involved are as follows what shift lengths are to be considered, what contract conditions apply, how many part-time workers are to be used, what sickness rate can be expected, what vacation and statutory hohday conditions apply, and what are the capabilities of the staff available. This last point illustrates that the process may be iterative because the worker availability may necessitate a change in the number of workers needed. 

Most retail outlets have developed sophisticated databases that track the historic sales. These stores are usually open long hours, seven days a week, and have a demand for workers that varies both by the day and by the 15-minute interval within a day. Although this is still a single-shift problem, the increased difficulty is shown when building schedules for these cases. Fortunately, part-time workers are used extensively, but even so, experience has shown that there is a great de of discontent with the final weekly schedules that are posted. Section 4 of this chapter will address how to improve schedules for the time-varying dememd problem. 

Part-time workers have become the mmnstay for mtmy industries. Various reasons exist for having part-time workers, only some of which perteiin to scheduling, as can be seen in the following list ... 

The full-time complement tillowed is not enough to cover aU the required workers, so part-time workers are scheduled into the master schedule to mtike up the deficit. 

People call in sick, so part-time workers are ctilled at the last minute to fill the vacant spot in the schedule. 

A statutory holiday occurs and some full-time workers ace given the day off part-time workers are scheduled in advance for this holiday. 

Vacations, training time, business trips, long-term sickness, and other reasons for using a part-time worker are known in advance when the schedule is created. 

There is a fluctuation in demand during the day, or during the week that needs to be accounted for using part-time workers. In many cases, the need for part-time workers is known in advance, but in others, additional people will need to be called at the last minute. 

Regular part-time workers are staff that are associated with the employer and used on a regular basis. In many instances these employees will fall under a union or employer contract. Some of the conditions prevailing in contracts are as follows ... 

When part-time workers are needed, they are to be asked if they are available in some specified order, such as seniority, or equitably with the others. 

Many grocery stores and fast-food stores leave the scheduling of part-time workers to be done manually by administration. While they try to do a good job, it is time consuming and inequitable schedules can inadvertently arise. Such schedules can lead to discontent and employee unrest. A good system must be set up for this task. 

The bounds for the minimum number of workers required can be used for other purposes. For example 1 above, if a part-time worker is hired for Saturday, the variable n is reduced to 4. Bound Lj still requires that 8 workers be hired, but the frequency of weekends off can be increased to every second weekend off without hiring more workers. For A=l,S = 2,n = 4, the bound Lj will still be 8. An interesting result will be that in the final schedule, the surplus workers on the weekdays will be increased because more days off will be given on the weekend for the same 8 people. The employer will need to find work for these surplus people, if possible. 

One way of eliminating surplus workers in the final schedule is to hire part-time workers for the weekend, and for the weekdays to have the bounds given by Lj and Lj equal. Extra part-time workers would be hired to ensure that the bound Lj is divisible by five. 

Step 3. Create the shifts to be worked on each day of the schedule, using the part-time workers as well as the full-time workers. 

Carefully placing the 8-hour shifts allows the schedule to be created as in Table 26, with no part-time workers required. Two people are started on each line of the schedule, and each person works exactly 80 hours in every two-week period. 

The bounds given by Burns and Carter (1985) give the workforce size as the maximum of the bound on the total shifts required and the weekend-off bound. If a contract is being negotiated that will increase the frequency of weekends off and the new bound for this increase is higher than the bound on the total shifts required in the old contract, extra employees will be working on the weekdays. What may happen is that the employer will reduce the number of people required on the weekend until the two bounds are equal and then will hire part-time workers for the weekends. Each time the weekend requirements are reduced, the total shift requirements for full-time employees are reduced by two shifts. When the adjustments are done to balance the two bounds, the result may mean that fewer full-time employees are required under the proposed contract changes and more part-time employees wiU be used, which may not be what the employees want or expect. 

There are many factors that need to be considered on both the capacity and the demand side of the process. From the demand side, backorders, pricing, and special sales need to be considered with their impact on capacity. From the capacity side, hiring part-time workers, overtime for existing employees, hiring new workers need to be considered with their impact on... 

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Safety professionals should be cognizant of the overtime provisions, especially when conducting safety training, as well as the age requirements in snch areas as the use of summer part-time workers. 

Special efforts need to be made for temporary or part-time workers in particular to overcome the fewer opportunities they would otherwise have to receive training. 

The European Commission has proposed three directives to regnlate the employment of part-time and temporary employees. These include giving part-time workers a pro rata right to hohday, seniority and dismissal allowances. They would also have the right to pro rata treatment in respect of pensions and sick pay, as well as access to any social services and training provided by the employer. It also proposed that part-time employees who work at least eight hours per week should come within the National Insurance scheme, regardless of how little they earn. 

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