And we won't have to pay taxes on the money the company pays for the dental plan. Being only too aware of the rising cost of dental care, the fairies eagerly approve the new contract. A new era of labour-management relations had dawned. The overtime premium has, in effect, been wiped out by the cumulative effect of the fixed-cost benefits. A Mammoth week of 46 hours costs the company about the same per hour worked as a standard 40 hour week.
Fairies average three to four hours a week of overtime.
Fifty and sixty hour weeks are not unheard of. But tooth fairy demographics have changed, too. More fairies with young children are in the work force. Two-earner fairy households are common. Peter Pencil's successor, Samuel P. Spreadsheet has taken the union demands for work sharing and job sharing back to his office for closer examination.