Laying Hens worker profit share

[kernow1]

Does anybody know anyone who works on this model? Whether its eggs produced or reduced mortalities etc, I wondered whether this would help hard to employ job roles gain traction or help new entrance.

Just for discussion I am not offering.

Thanks

 

[Eggs and Things]

We are looking at this at the moment. What ever metric you use is open to gaming of the system. It depends if you are prepared to disclose financial results to the staff. If so, simply allocate a % share of profit (asuming there is some!) to the staff, divided up however you see fit.

 

[kernow1]

Very fair point, got to be somewhere where the employ is making a difference?

 

[Eggs and Things]

Very fair point, got to be somewhere where the employ is making a difference?

Absolutely. The idea is to tie the success of the employee to the success of the farm. There are a few issues.
You don't know how the flock has performed until it is over. That is a long time to wait for the average employee. Although it does show them that the farm is probably in the red until the latter part of the flock.
If you pay them a bonus earlier, they may lose interest, or worse still leave before the end.
The flock may have a problem that is not down to staff, and so they lose out through not fault of their own. Indeed a bad flock often creates more work for staff.
In this situation it is down to the boss not to be a pr*ck. If the staff are putting in the effort (say due to a lot of floor eggs), management should consider some recognition, even if the formula for bonuses hasn't been met.

 

[Hilly]

Creative accounting leaves them with a good wage , the end.

 

[Daniel]

We’ve never managed to work out a fair way of doing it, the market fluctuates, bird performance can be terrible or brilliant and sometimes its your management, sometimes it’s totally out of your control.

The best you can probably do is be honest and pay a bonus in the year the stars aligned, and explain why you can’t in the years when they don’t?