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...upper-class students moved in last fall under the eyes of several dozen Security Systems Inc. (SSI) employees. Eight months later, the University is hesitant to call the transformation a total success...
...SSI guard turnover has been high--many campus locations don't have the same face watching the doors week-to-week. HUPD dispatchers often have trouble contacting guards on the security radio frequency, and police officers whisper questions about SSI's competence...
...then the University should adopt a minimum per-hour pay level for all workers. Perhaps such a calculation will be more than just a simple figure, one that takes into account the marginal value of benefits at various wage levels. For example, many subcontracted workers, particularly guards employed by SSI and janitors employed by UNICCO, currently earn wages far lower than their Harvard counterparts in addition to not receiving health benefits. For these workers, simply adding health benefits might not be as valuable as a pay raise. Since Harvard has so far dismissed a discussion of actual wages of these...
...decided, unlike the City of Cambridge, to focus on total compensation instead of wages. Perhaps such a calculation will be more than just a simple figure, one that takes into account the marginal value of benefits at various wage levels. For example, many subcontracted workers, particularly guards employed by SSI and janitors employed by UNICCO, currently earn wages far lower than their Harvard counterparts. In their cases, simply adding health benefits might not be as valuable as a pay raise. Since Harvard has dismissed a discussion of actual wages of these subcontracted workers in favor of fringe benefits, there...
Lang said she had spoken to guards who told her their wages from SSI are just over the minimum, and that they were not paid for training time...