21st July 2011, 03:54 PM
Jack Wrote:This issue of long hours, overtime rates (or not) traveling time and expenses on some larger jobs, and who's fault it is, is a complex issue.!
Don't really see how. Of course the client wants you to work for as close to nothing as he can legally make you. It's the role of the archaeology company to insist on appropriate recompense for their services. If they bend over and agree to put in a low tender with no overtime, expenses or whatever then they are, as RedEarth says, undercutting companies that do want to do right by their staff.
Even if the client refuses to pay such things, you as the archaeology company just increase your flat daily rate to cover all your expenses and overtime, and put in your tender on that basis.
Of course it won't work, but only because you'll be undercut by someone who doesn't value their profession or their staff.