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Originally Posted by Ken07AOVette
We have had the flat rate discussion many times. A friend of mine working at a dealership could do a certain job in 2 hours. He did 4 of these a day. The customers were all billed 8.5 hours. That's 34 hours work charged in a single day by a single young mechanic.
There is a difference between a good mechanic doing the work at lightning speed which is good for the business and outright fraud and theft. In this case what would CRA say when they bill out 170 hours per week from this one mechanic at $125 per hour yet pay him $35?
Overhead, insurance, utilities, yeah yeah.
He quit by the way, couldn't take any more of their crap and overbilling. I have not heard yet what happened with the labor board.
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May be different in AB, but when I worked flat rate in NB it was always on my pay stub and T4 as units or piece work, not hours. I suspect the shops would bill it out the same way that it was reported to the CRA. That said, while I did make a good paycheck for a while, the company got greedy and effectively reduced everyone's pay by half, then refusing to pay almost half of that. I had enough of the flat rate world. I changed career paths and have moved on, never looked back.