23rd July 2014, 10:56 AM
Marc Berger Wrote:I think that you might need to split the we bit into two. The salaried and the self employed. The salaried no and the self employed yes. The salaried are paid for their archive to be donated to the public and the self employed have their archive taken off them and given to the public for nothing. it's not only profit but all of the effort of producing the stuff which is not being paid for. A possible way to look at it is that the self employed are working for half the pay of the salaried.
Surely, as a self-employed bod, it is y[B]our [/B]responsibility to ensure your original tender included the cost of creating/storing/providing copies of the archive? If not, WHY not? I'm sure all the big units do it. Even if you simply hide it in the inflated day-rate, it still ought to be part of your thinking - it'd be numpty-ish to forget to add it! Do you add estimates for mileage, accommodation, food etc? Or do you just hope to get hand-outs? Of course you add them to the tender! Same with the archive costs...
So, there's no reason why anyone should have their archive "taken off them" without appropriate compensation - it's just up to you to make sure it was in the tender costs in the first place. The only difference here is that an employee gets their cash in guaranteed amounts at timely intervals, while a canny self-employed archaeologist has to submit an invoice after doing the work...