mdshunk said:It may potentially be in a labor agreement.
I've seen it in bid documents for Bacon Davis work, but not in a labor agreement.
IF the language is there...read it carefully....being in a lift generally does NOT require high-time pay - which can be anywhere from 10% - 15% above scale...or whatever you work out with the man actually doing the work:wink:.
I was on a job where it was required that I enter an abandoned elevator shaft that was now being used as a pipe chase. The choices were:
A) Plank off the floors every 2 stories to avoid the high-time pay, but then the EC suffered on the labor of movement of the planking
B) Pay me AND my partner(who did not enter the shaft) high-time for the work and avoid the time lost issue of planking off. (Plenty of PPE was available)
The EC opted for option C....pay me and my partner time and a half to perform this feat using the PPE available ...and whatever else we wanted.
The higher pay actually hurt us ....with the extra money being tossed our way, we moved faster than had we recieved the high-time ( @15%)....so the EC saved money paying us more for less time.
It's a crazy world :grin: