Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5?

Re:Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5? by p_roz on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:12AM (#19582659)

Think about the demand for tax preparers each year. Higher demand Jan-Apr. Lower demand the rest of the year. Should companies be forced to hire tax preparers full time year round or should they be free to contract for only when they are needed?

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Re:Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5? by ivanbakel on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:56AM (#19583150)

That example isn't comparable to the kind of contracts that were originally being discussed. A contract with fixed hours on the scale of months doesn't have the same degree of stress as one with hours varying from day to day, week to week.

Fixed term contracts are allowable, because taking that thinking to the extreme would mean never being able to terminate a worker, even in cases where their employment becomes obsolete.

The issue revolves around "technically being employed" - having a contract which doesn't entail consistent or sufficient hours, and then not even having the choice to work enough to get by. This unfairly pumps employment figures for companies and the government, who can say that they have X workers, while denying an honest representation of how much people are actually able to work.

My original question was - is there an example of a job which could justify these kinds of fluctuations in working hours and subsequent income?

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Re:Who Pays the Price for Selling $10 Bills for $5? by howeyc on Friday April 05, 2019 @12:26PM (#19584119)

There are so many, as a simple example, think basically any contractor that does work on houses.

Painter, they can only work on days it's nice out. Kinda hard to paint when it's raining, and you can't get the day back.

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