Labour Ready - Worker Payment, Hours of Operation, Etc.

Worker Payment, Hours of Operation, Etc.

Workers are paid daily by check or cash via a cash dispenser ATM-like machine. Workers have access to safety equipment at no charge. Workers who do not have transportation to jobs are also provided with transportation at a fee of between $2.50 to $3.50 each way. The current rate as of January 2011 in Brantford, ONT, Canada, is $5.50 each way. Workers are encouraged to wait on site for work that may become available, though this waiting is unpaid.

All branches open at 5:30 AM in order to begin dispatching workers needed that day. (When companies need workers for evening, night, or weekend shifts, Labor Ready assigns the workers hours in advance or one to two days in advance.) Depending on the location of the office and the day of the week, anywhere from zero to roughly one hundred workers can be dispatched daily. Typically, workers line up outside the doors of a given branch office prior to the branch opening, however, company policy states it is not a first come first serve. Many potential workers receive no job for the day.