worked 234 hours per month or an average of one hour overtime daily on the 1918 schedule. This for five months gives him 130 hours overtime. He has been paid as follows: 4. In the case of employee "E," who was employed in a shop where the rate for his position was 35 cents per hour for 8 hours' work in 1915, with time and one-half for overtime, but in the same position and same shop with the same hours in 1918 his rate is 45 cents per hour; his earnings in 1915 in the standard 208-hour month would be $72.80 per month, and he would be entitled to the new hourly rate of 49 cents per hour. His straight time and overtime earnings and back pay would be computed in exactly the same manner as machinist "D." The principles illustrated will apply to all men paid by the hour, whatever their occupation may be. SECTION D.-Rates of wages of railroad employees paid upon piece work basis. METHOD OF APPLYING INCREASES TO PIECE RATES. 1. The pieceworker shall receive for each hour worked, the same increase per hour as is awarded to the hourly worker engaged in similar employment in the same shop. 2. If the hourly rate has been increased since 1915 to an amount greater than the increase herein fixed, then the higher rate shall prevail. 3. Where there was no piece rate for an item or operation in the piece-rate schedule of 1915, adjust the current price by such an amount as a similar item or operation has been increased or decreased since December 31, 1915, or as near such a plan as practicable. 4. It is understood that the application of this order shall not, in any case, operate to reduce current earnings. 5. When a pieceworker works overtime or undertime, he shall receive that proportion of the increase provided in the schedule which the time actually worked bears to the normal time in the position. 6. Overtime is not to be considered solely as the number of hours employed in excess of the normal hours per month in the position, but rather the time employed in excess of the normal hours per day. 7. Employee "F" was employed under a piecework schedule in a shop where the basic hourly rate was 35 cents for eight hours, with time and one-half for overtime. This rate under the plan illustrated above will be increased to 49 cents per hour. Difference, 14 cents. Regardless of the schedule of piece rates under which he is paid, under this order "F" will be entitled to receive 14 cents per hour in addition to his piecework earnings for every hour worked in 1918 unless the hourly rate shall in the interim have been raised and a proportionate increase made in the piecework schedule. For example: Assume that "F" made $90 in December, 1915, at his piecework. At the hourly rate he would have earned only $72.80, and his hourly rate must therefore be increased to 49 cents. If, in January, 1918, he has attained sufficient skill to earn $100 on the same piecework schedule, he will be entitled to receive, nevertheless, 143 cents per hour for each hour of straight time worked, and for each hour of overtime, 213 cents additional (if time and one-half for overtime is in effect). Assume that in the five months, January 1 to May 31, "F" has worked 1,040 hours straight time, and 130 hours overtime, and has, at his piecework schedule earned $500. He will be entitled, nevertheless, to receive as back pay the following amount: 1,040 hours at 143 cents per hour_. 130 hours at 21 cents per hour_ Total_. $150.80 28.28 179.08 But if in January, 1918, the basic hourly rate had been increased to 50 cents, and this increase had been correspondingly expressed in his piecework schedule, he would be entitled to no back pay. If, on the other hand, the hourly rate had been increased from 35 cents in 1915 to 45 on January 1, 1918, and this increase had been expressed in a corresponding increase in the piecework schedule, then "F" would be entitled to receive back pay at 4 cents per hour for straight time and 63 cents per hour overtime. If the practice in the shop, however, had been to pay pro rata for overtime, then the rate for such overtime since January 1, 1918, would be pro rata at 4 cents, or 14 cents per hour, according to whether piece rates had been or had not been increased. 8. Employee's December, 1915, rate was 38 cents; which rate in this order for 8 hours per day entitles him to 544 cents per hour. His basic rate had, by January 1, 1918, been raised to 42 cents per hour. Piecework rates had not been raised in the interval. man earned in 208 hours $100. He is entitled to a raise of 11 per hour. 11 cents X 208: 1 month. 5 months This cents $24.44 122. 20 The following rates will apply "per day" or its established equivalent in "miles": SECTION E.-Rates of wages of railroad employees paid upon mileage basis. SECTION E.-Rates of wages of railroad employees poid upon mileage basis-Con. "Old" rates are those of December, 1915. If there were mileage rates in effect in December, 1915, which are not included in the above tables, they shall be increased in accordance with the following percentages: Road passenger engineers and motormen. Road passenger baggagemen. Road passenger brakemen and flagmen_ Road freight conductors---. Road freight brakemen and flagmen. METHOD OF APPLYING INCREASES TO MILEAGE BASIS. Per cent. 111 281 15 381 39 151 341 201 391 1. Rates for overtime as now in effect, whether providing for pro rata basis or in excess thereof, shall be increased by same percentage as straight time rates. 2. Miles run, in excess of the established equivalent of a day (or of a month where such basis prevails) shall be paid for pro rata. 3. If any increase has been made in the mileage rates of employees paid on that basis in December, 1915, it will be understood that the per cent of increase allowed by this order is inclusive of such interim increases and that the new rate is computed from the base rates of December, 1915. 4. Example (1): Engineer "G," passenger service, received $4.25 per day of one hundred miles in 10 hours in December, 1915. According to this plan, although in 1918 this rate was $4.25 per hundred miles in 8 hours, the rate will be increased 11 per cent to $4.73 per 100 miles ($4.7281 equalized as $4.73). He will be entitled to back pay for every 100 miles run at the rate of 48 cents per 100 miles. |