So I have a contract to do an insane crane job on Monday next week at a high school in New York for a construction company. We've been in contract for about 2 months. I'm pretty excited about it.
Today their admin assistant emailed us and said all workers need to have taken a 10 hour osha course to do the job. No mention of this in the contract. I looked up the course online. It's 60 bucks per person times a 6 man crew (including myself).
I'm not worried about the 360 bucks. I'm concerned about how I'm going to A. fit in 10 hours of time in this busy week and B. Pay my guys to take the class for 10-11 hours.
If I play my cards right and the weather doesn't mess us up, I think we can reshuffle our schedule by Friday, and go from 7am-6pm watching the videos with a couple short breaks. We'll already be at 40 hours for the week by thursday night so all day friday will be overtime.
Here's the cost to me.
5 guys cost me approx 115 per hour gross wages. Plus 25% work comp and payroll taxes, times 1.5 for overtime for 11 hours, it comes out to close to $2400
What would you guys do in this situation? I could be making over 4k doing residential tree jobs on Friday. Instead I'm going to have to push that aside and pay my guys to take a mandatory class.
It IS a lucrative job. Here are my options
1. Eat it. I want more jobs with this company and I want to keep them happy
2. Ask them to pay for the class (360) plus the 11hour labor cost (2400).
3. Since I'm missing out on work we could be doing, charge them 4k plus the 360.
What would you guys do? I'm generally a bit passive but would I be unreasonable to kindly but firmly ask for option 3?