Good Morning All.
This may be a more complex issue than I expect and as this is my first time posting here, please bear with me if I need to break this in to multiple posts to cover the various issues.
Here goes.
I work for an oil producer which operates across two locations.
Corporate Office
Production site (different country)
We employee corporate staff on a standard 12 month year, working 5 days a week, with an annual holiday allowance (that's the easy part).
In the production site employees work either:
4 weeks on / 4 weeks off (for every day worked they accrue 1 days paid leave, paid during their off shift)
8 weeks on / 4 weeks off (for every day worked they accrue 1/2 a days paid leave, paid during their off shift).
When the employee is off site their position is carried out by another employee (referred to as their Back to Back)
my questions are:
For the 4/4
Q1. Can we allocate two employees to the same position with each employee achieving a 50% completion of position.
Q2. Where we have for example 100 employees completing the same position title (e.g. pipeline engineer) 50 on site / 50 off site (their back to back) is it best practice to create 50 pipeline engineer positions, each occupied by two people, or a single pipeline engineer position occupied by 100 people?
For the 8/4
Here three people will cover two positions (A&B)
Employee 1 works weeks 1 to 8 in position A
Employee 2 works weeks 5 to 12 in Position B
Employee 3 works weeks 9 to 12 in Position A and weeks 1 to 4 in Position B (covering when employee A and B are Off Site).
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position A | Emp 1 | Emp 1 | Emp 1 | Emp 1 | Emp 1 | Emp 1 | Emp 1 | Emp 1 | Emp 3 | Emp 3 | Emp 3 | Emp 3 |
| Position B | Emp 3 | Emp 3 | Emp 3 | Emp 3 | Emp 2 | Emp 2 | Emp 2 | Emp 2 | Emp 2 | Emp 2 | Emp 2 | Emp 2 |
Q3. If we can allocate two employees to the same position, do we allocate 66% of position A to employee 1 and 34% to Employee 3 (and the same for position B) the reason I am struggling with this is does that mean that we are allocating the persons time, or the position time.
Assuming that both Position A and Position B report to the same line manager and are paid the same grade this should work, BUT:
Q4. If they report to different line managers, e.g. Manager A and Manager B, is this easy to overwrite so that employee 3 will always report to the same manager (presumably under the A002 relationship)
Q5. If Position A and Position B are on different pay scales, will Payroll aggregate the pay rate for each position, or can this be set at a fixed value.
Appreciate that their are a lot of questions here but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Martin