Encore Global, the billion-dollar corporation providing Audio Visual services for today's conference is violating its agreement with in-house employees, including the contractually-negotiated hourly minimums clause. In addition, Encore has suppressed the annual merit increases of its workers and dismissed Union efforts to address these issues in good faith.
Hourly minimums are the minimum number of labor hours billed to employers for service from their technicians, regardless of how long the job actually takes.
Technicians in the audiovisual and entertainment industries are contractually guaranteed hourly minimums to ensure fair compensation for a day's work.
Hourly minimums are necessary because of the irregular hours and expectations of the work in our industry.
Hourly minimums are an industry-standard practice in AV as well as other industries like auto shops, plumbers, electricians, freelancers, etc.
The terms of how hourly minimums play out in a work day are outlined in an employment contract signed by employees and employer.
Technicians are legally contracted to do job duties that relate to their field.
If the company assigns work outside of the scope of the duties outlined in the contract, the company is in violation of the worker's rights.
Contractually, if a worker with a 4-hour minimum completes job duties before the 4-hour period has elapsed, the company is expected to release the worker for the day.
If the company holds the worker who has already completed their contractual obligations and assigns tasks not detailed in the contract, in order to extract more labor, that company is in breach of contract.
An example. Plumbers often work on 2 hour minimums. If you hired a plumber to clear your drain, a task that takes 20 minutes, would you then expect them to clean your shower and fold your laundry?
Encore Global is one of the largest if not THE largest AV company on the planet. If you oppose the attacks on the rights of working people let Encore know!