Labor Market and Hourly Staff Rates - F.A.Q.

35.Which professions are employed in the firm?
Answer: The professions employed by the firm are short-term and long-term production workers, Q&A staffers, Engineers and Managers.

36.Is there a restriction regarding the changes in the number of employees of certain professions?
Answer: Yes, the firm cannot fire more than 3 individuals from its long term group of workers in a single quarter. Additionally, the firm cannot fire more than 50% of its employees from any other profession.

37.Is there a minimum wage in the Green State? How does it affect the company management?
Answer: Yes, there is a minimum wage in the Green State. The firm cannot pay its workers less than the minimum wage.

38.What might happen if the firm tries to pay less than the minimum wage?
Answer: In case the firm tries to pay its workers less than the minimum wage a message pops up stating which salaries should be raised to reach the minimum wage. At this point the simulation stop.

39.What affects the firm's ability to recruit workers in each profession?
Answer: The firm's ability to recruit workers is determined based upon the current number of workers available for hiring in the marketplace, the average hourly rate paid to workers on the market and the hourly rate the firm is willing to pay to the new workers. Additionally, if the firm has a history of rapidly changing its labor force it also makes it difficult to recruit new human resources power.

40.Can a different hourly rate be set for each worker type?
Answer: Yes. Using the 'Human Resources' screen, users can set a different hourly rate for different types of workers.

41.What premiums are paid to each worker for working during different shifts?
Answer: The second shift has an houly premium rate of 25% and the third shift has an hourly premium of 50% over the base hourly rate.

42.What is the costs of training and firing for each staffer?
Answer: Training costs vary between 1000 to several thousand zuz. Firing costs are much the same. Details about these figures can be found in the user manual.