Monday 5 March 2007

Alternative to commission based salaries

I have written about parking attendants and bailiffs who have no moral values because of their commission based salaries.

I do not see why bailiffs need to have commission base salaries? Why not set the number of places to visit in a day regardless of whether they can bring back any money? The incentive to go to more places than what they are set would be an increase in their salaries. The salary should not be based on how much debt they can collect. The salary should be based on the number of places they visit for debt collection regardless of whether they collect the debt or not. Since the more times they go to the same place to collect, the higher the debt becomes, the debt will be paid eventually.

The above will not work for parking attendants. They should be given a basic salary. Their salary will depend on the number of complaints being made towards each parking attendant. I presume the commission based salaries were introduced because they were worried about the parking attendants not doing their job and collecting money for nothing. Random checks can be made to see if they are doing their job. They will now stop issuing penalty notices unfairly. The problem with this method is that the companies who employ them are private and profit hungry. Their profit is derived from more penalty notices issued. They shouldn't have been outsourced in the first place. They should be operated by local councils again.

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