Renosteinke,
Many thanks! I think you are right on. In this day and age, if you can spot someone who comes from a family with a strong work ethic and is interested in learning a valuable trade, you should hire them. In the past, we have been plagued by guys who show up 3 or 4 days a week and seemed to spend most of their time trying to figure out how to keep us from finding out that they weren’t working. Then when we let them go, they claim unemployment against our account.
We are thinking of instituting “two week trial period policy” -- they work for us for two weeks (at our normal apprentice pay rate) with the understanding that at the end of the two weeks, we will make the decision about hiring them. Does anyone know if there any legal issues with a program like that. Do we need to put the policy in writing and have them sign it before they start work? Could the claim unemployment against our account if we decide not to hire them?
VinceR
