February 7, Day3
Business Speech - Negociation
A: Firstly the over time pay, now (that) the shop (will be) open on sundays, for (an) extra 2hours every saturday, and (the) holiday season begins not long after the induction of (the) new contracts.
The staffs is (aware that) they will have to work overtime to cover absences and (so forth).
However, they are concerned that (at) the rate it is now.
The company is going to call on full time staffs more and more to work the overtime rather than get the part time and (floating) staffs doing it.
As (it) will be much cheaper to call on the full timers, they feel that if this is going to be the case, the time is worth more than (a mere)10% more an hour.
B: How much do they think their time is worth?
A: They think that overtime pay should be an additional 50% of their hourly rate.
B: But that is out of question! they get that rate for working public holidays.
* and so forth
* floating staffs
* mere