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We have fought about this a lot. Many salaried, full time people spend a lot of extra hours helping us. They also get appropriate salaries with benefits. Some make more money than I do.
Should we limit the fund to hourly workers? If we drop the salaried, the hourly workers, who make a lot less, will receive more. Please advise.

The average ccrc resident at dh’s work donates 1200 a year to the hourly fund. It equates to 3.25 a day. which is a great deal considering:

People have to pay to dine in common areas. With two people, three meals would be 80 bucks and 20 percent of that is 16 bucks. It’s already a bargain.

Then there’s the drivers that like the servers you can’t tip personally. This extends to the maintenance guy who rescued your depends out of your toilet with a plumbing snake. Or the houseman called to clean up your accident.
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You have no say in how the tips are dispersed, nor can you specify who gets what. That is to say, if you are chipping into a pot at an AL or residential care community of some kind. The admin make those decisions.

At moms place, none of the management shared in the tip fund.
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I live in a CCRC and we have an Appreciation Fund. I believe it originally started for the servers in the dining room who do not get tips. They are mostly high school kids and I’m fine with this. Now every employee receives a portion according to the hours they’ve worked in the past year. EVERYONE except the Executive Director and Nursing Home Administrator receives a gift. I have argued against this for years. No person in management should receive this gift. I’ve been in management and we received many perks hourly workers did not. The problem now in 2024 is it would cause too many problems to take it away. Once you give it, it’s expected and people plan their budgets accordingly.
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PeggySue2020 Sep 28, 2024
I agree management should not share in the fund.
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My dh works for a ccrc that runs a holiday fund for hourly workers. Without it, at least a third of the workers would leave.
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Salary people are usually the bosses and are paid well for their job. Tipping should be for the staff who does the hands on work. Care for residents on a daily basis. These are usually aides, housekeeping and medtechs. Maybe kitchen help. Who are all hourly.
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cwillie Sep 27, 2024
don't forget the office clerks, they are usually low paid workers too and are often called in to help when care staff is unavailable
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I agree with cwillie. I disagree with this entire concept. I don't think these tipping programs should exist. A fair salary should be paid. Tipping almost ALWAYS tips over into favoritism and bad feelings among employees over how funds are handled. When you get your "letter" and you will, I would return it explaining I choose not to partake of these programs for the reason I mentioned.
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IneedPeace Sep 28, 2024
I don't either, but my mom is not an easy person to deal with to put it very mildly. I contributed $500 to the fund and will do so again this year. Partially because I hope she will be treated with an extra measure of patience when she is being difficult, although I know it shouldn't factor in at all.
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I would not include salaried workers, they are almost always management and make significantly more than the hourly staff do, plus a lot of the "extras" they do are often part of their job description. Frankly I dislike the whole concept, it should be up to the owners to provided staff parties, perks and bonuses. But then in most places nobody would be getting anything (sigh)
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Are you talking about a facility that is asking residents to contribute to a "Holiday fund"? Are you an administrator asking how the funds should be allocated or are you a resident or is a loved one a resident at the facility?
If you are a resident or a loved one is a resident then it is not up to you how the contributions are allocated.
If you are an administrator there should be some direction from a corporate policy.
And if there is a policy of staff not getting "TIPs" at all or over a set amount (typical limit is $25.00) although this is difficult if not impossible to regulate.
In reality the nurses, CNA's and any aides on the floor will get TIP's. the people left out are housekeeping, facilities, front office, receptionist, all kitchen staff..all the "invisible people" that no place can function without.
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