The VA Leaders are at it again, and by it, I mean showing that they can't even function as adults let alone as Health professionals. The latest is that they can't even do basic math. They decided to go back on the changes they were making to the mandatory overtime due to push back from employees and employees turning in medical letters and sharing the current research on the negative impact that mandatory overtime can have if required hours overlap with the natural sleep cycle. For more on this check our previous VA article. Now though employees need to sign up for 1.5 hour shifts in order to meet the required 4 hours of overtime....yes, think about that sentence...
1.5 + 1.5= 3 hours ...3 +1.5= 4.5.... 4.5 and 4 are different numbers. This means that the new policy of 1.5 hour shifts actually forces employees to do more then the required mandatory overtime. So these leaders in the VA need to be fired because they can't even do simple grade school math. These are the people making decisions that negatively impact both workers and veterans, because they do not even have basic skills needed to function in life let alone in the workforce.
Lets look at more math that they just don't get. The current administration in Washington don't want money wasted, but because the VA leadership doesn't understand math, they are mismanaging the money they have been given. Right now with the mandatory over time they are wasting money instead of just hiring more employees. Don't take my word for it, let's look at the math.
Let's say an employee makes $30 and hour and they work a normal 40 hour work week (this calculation will be before taxes and other things like health insurance).
30 x 40 = $1200
Over time is time and a half for the additional hours. This means that 4 hours of overtime is an additional $180 (30 x 4 x 1.5).
If it takes 10 employees doing over time to get to the 40 hours to equal a new employee, this means that the overtime to pay current workers would equal $1800 per week or $600 extra paid out that would not have to be paid out ($180 x 10). That extra $600 per week would more than make up for what companies pay out in benefits for an employee per month (this would be $2400 per month which is more then needed for benefits at most companies).
This shows that hiring 1 new employee for every 10 workers doing overtime would not only balance out the work (helping the other employees with work life balance and mental health), but save money. The kicker here is also new employees could be brought in for less money because they are new. For example the minimum wage in Aurora, Colorado right now is $17. This would mean that the VA could save up to $13 per regular hour by hiring a new employee instead of forcing employees to do overtime. This just shows how little the VA leadership understands math.
(Checking on the usajobs.gov website it looks like the position of MSA makes around $17.51 per hour to start out with, $36,435 per year. This confirms that new employees make less and could save the VA from having to pay out overtime).
Another thing that came out today is that the VA is canceling their employee survey for this year. I wonder why....they know that workers are upset about all of the stuff they are pulling and they don't want any formal record of employee complaints. It is them trying to hide the abuse that workers are experiencing. The VA is doing everything it can to silence workers. The VA claims that they are not doing the survey to save employee time and money, but in reality they know that it will so that the VA is failing and that it is a toxic place to work.
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