Pay rate practices and Unemployment

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This should not be an issue but it is.  Remember this when looking at Unemployment Rate.  Pay scale comes in four forms, full time, part time, temp and contract with each having it's own value and bonus.
  1. Full time gets benefits given by the employer as well as usually increased pay.
  2. Part time is less hours with no benefits other then the less hours and usually just minimum wage.
  3. Temp being just that, either extra worker or someone filling in while someone else is on sick leave.  Temp workers get the part time or full time pay but no benefits and usually there only a single day to a single week.  Except they don't get these: sick leave, vacation and on-call.
  4. Contact being special rules of it's own.
Regardless both have same same when it comes to: over time, time and a half, holiday, sick leave, vacation and on-call.

Looking at it from the outside seems just fine and working as intended.  How ever this is not the case.
Add in these.
  • Contract workers often having to travel 100 miles between home/office and work site, self employed in most cases and likely paying for insurance as an individual, most times paying into a union, likely working less then full time hours for an entire month and never full time for a whole year.
  • Temp-to-Hire, this works like a contract job but where an employer pays less then full time pay with full time hours and no benefits, with the option to let the person go when the term runs up to exempt them self from paying out the full time pay and benefits.
  • Over time pay per pay period, resulting in being able to skip out on the normal 40hr/w deal and go for an 80hr/2w.  This way employers can work someone 79hrs and not pay them any over time.
  • Intern work, this is VERY often unpaid work which can be up to full time hours.
  • Part-time employment, never full time hours and often around just 24hr/w with no benefits.  (should only go to those in school or stay at home parents...but does not)
Fix the above problems and you'll need less government assistance.

Unemployment rate, most people know this one.  But what they don't know is that what is vastly told to them is the U-3 rate which does not count: Part-Time, Temp, Contract, Temp-ti-Hire, Intern work, College student, stay at home care giver, those given up looking for employment or have been looking for more then 2yrs and still are as part of the unemployed.  U-6 how ever does count all of those.

U-6 rate is on avg twice that of the U-3 rate.  Looking above you know that MANY people are listed as ' Employed ' but are not earning income the same as those working full time.

Semi related issue is fake job postings.  This can be simple phishing scheme's for data.  It can also be a way a fudging the job growth in an area, this resulting in reduced government aid for residents.  In either case it's not good for local residents and in both case's is illegal.

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