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Originally Posted by morphius
"You don't base an employee's salary on the number of hours he works"
I think that is generally part of the equation. What you are essentially saying is that someone who works a weekend doing the same job that someone else does 5 days a week should be compensated exactly the same?
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It depends upon the nature of the job. If the job is to provide technical support for customers between the hours of 8:00 and 5:00, then you need people who'll have their butts in the office from 8:00 to 5:00, and you wouldn't pay a part-time employee the same as you'd pay a full-time employee. However, if the job is to sell a million dollars worth of life insurance every month and one guy has to work 160 hours to get it done and another gets it done in 5 hours, then yes, they should be paid exactly the same. In the second case the value provided is for the results, not for the amount of time it takes to achieve the results.
If the job is to make real-time judgments in high-pressure situations during NFL football games where the annual revenue of the league is 9 billion dollars and poor officiating could cause the outcomes of many games to be decided incorrectly, then I don't really care about the fact that a referee only works 16 games per season. The only requirement would be that the referee puts in enough hours every week to be able to work at peak performance on game days. The value provided is the results, not the number of hours worked.
Now, if the referees are the ones resisting being full-time referees, then those referees should be fired and replaced with people who want the full-time gig.