It does not mention statutory anything in my letter dated 9/2/05.

I see "newly defined FT employee classification w/flexible...

I see New Part-Time employee classification w/flexible ...

I see Opportunity for PTO for part-time employees and increased PTO of up to ....

but I don't see nuttin about STATUTORY EMPLOYEES.......Statutory is not part-time

• Does MQ have STATUTORY EMPLOYEEs anymore under new plan???? - ??????????????????
  • They better have SE because no way is my insurance riding on the BS they pull with no work all the - MQMT
    • Boy! you got that right. - too much BS to get 12,000
  • they will be offering some pto time for se - yes
    • That is incorrect... no PTO for SE - no name
    • It does not mention statutory anything in my letter dated 9/2/05. - where are you seeing that?
      • ditto, no SE mentioned in 9/2 letter - nana23
      • full time, part time, statutory - no name
        • Letter - MQSE
      • super told me to meet lines of 12000 or be dropped to SE - i was told all employees who do not meet 12000 min
        • 12,000 AND 40 hours - no name
        • MQ-letter and 12000 lines - Tiki
          • from amherst - tonya wimberly-huger
        • If you don't mind could you clarify with her what she means? - I'd appreciate it so much
          • coming from corporate - from amherst ofc
            • Interesting - what is date on that? and does this newest memo from - Barbato override it
              • i do believe the barbato memo is the newest - same date - sept 2
                • Huh? you mean your letter and my memo from Barbato - are both Sept 2?
                  • i do believe that is correct, same memo - yes
                    • oops sorry - thought you had a - separate memo dated 9/2
      • my CSC person told me there is FT and SE - my misunderstanding then
  • no letter or memo to me yet - abc
    • Good point re: insurance, but also...sm - HomeMT
      • Not every SE is a "hog" - MT should have flexibility too
        • It is not the SE's, but rather the IC's - MQ'ers that HOG up the work
          • SE's vs IC's? - MQr
          • Not the SE's, but the IC's hogging the work. - Confused
          • MTs choose to be ICs for a reason... - wondering
          • Please, stop the Blame Game - MT naively hoping for solidarity?
      • Isn't MQ saving a kazillion$$$ by not - using 1-800 numbers
        • Don't you just love it when MQ expects the MT's to return - MQ Supes want you to call them back --
          • The supes just love it, because - MQ supes can "charge off" their long distanc
    • "Thinking" and "knowing" are 2 entirely different things. Actually I could see them doi - SE to get more control of

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The medical transcription business is drawing people from other sectors. That’s because the income can be quite substantial. Transcriptionists are paid anywhere between 60 paise to Rs 2.0 per line. At a minimum of 6 hours and transcribing 800 lines per day, transcriptionists can make around Rs 1,200 a day. Working 26 days a month, they earn more than Rs 30,000 (USD 450 - 500) a month. They send their reports to an Editor for proof-reading who are paid upwards of Rs 40,000 per month. 

As a result, hundreds of professionals are quitting their regular jobs to assist US doctors in transcribing their conversation with patients. X-ray, pathology, surgery and discharge reports of US patients are also being transcribed out of India.

To be a transcriptionist, an aspirant has to acquire skills in medical terminology. The next step is the editor. Level three is a quality analyst (QA) who has to work out of the office of the MT firm.

It’s a daily ritual for thousands of homemakers across India. After sending husbands to work and kids to school, they download voice files and start transcribing medical illnesses of patients in the US.  

Sowly, medical transcription from home is becoming a phenomenon, particularly in tier-II cities where the BPO boom hasn’t yet caught on and educated women are still not being encouraged to venture out of home.

“Almost half of our 600 home employees are women. Working from home allows them to spend more time with family,” said Mr Rajiv Shetye, VP, Spryance, a Boston-based medical transcription firm which now has 1,200 employees in India.

According to estimates, India has about 100 medical transcription companies and the big ones include Accusis, Spryance, Stheris and Heartland. About 10,000 people work in the $120 million-strong industry.

Still, there is a lot of untapped potential. The US market for market transcription is about $12 bn per annum, which is more than double the BPO exports of India. More than 700 million hospital events need to be recorded every year. According to Nasscom, about 1.6 lakh such transcriptionists will be needed in India by 2008. Earnings depend on how much time a person is able to devote. Billing is based on the number of lines transcribed.

HARSIMRAN SINGH

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But this article states it would only affect new customers right now.  So I am upset over nothing.  I went through heck with BellSouth when they charged me a surcharge of an extra 50 a month and then would write a letter saying I had to switch to a long distance service and pay by the minute because of my "excessive" use. They told me the unlimited charge was for an average of an hour a day not somebody who worked out of their home and I needed to switch a business plan at over 200 a month charge.  I switched over to cable because of that and then to read that cable was going to charging on a per use fee and not a flat monthly fee it upset me.  It is the nature of our work, VR, only paying for VBC, having headers and footers taken away, now being charged for being on line, etc.  It just seems that everything is done to keep to insure less money.

was statutory for years until MQ made us all go to regular employee status.  The one thing I loved about this job was freedom and they really took that away when they set us up as regular employees. 

I just took another job as a statutory employee and am working out my notice with MQ.  Love, love, love it.  Statutory is the best of both worlds for me since I don't need bennies.  The PTO was nice, but the freedom is worth so much more. 

if you are statutory status they take out federal, but not state taxes, is that correct?  What about SS? Thinking of taking a job on statutory status. Thanks.

Does anybody know of companies that still hire Statutory or independent contractors?  Since I take the standard deduction on my personal taxes I can no longer deduct my MT expenses and that's a major ouch.  Thanks for any help.

is going to be the end of our quarterly bonus. My concern still is if there is no work how do you get any incentive if they lower the base rate. Sounds like employees will have a larger window to get their work done which means we all will be scrambling around for work at all hours.

I have only been a statutory employee for a couple of months (I was an employee with benefits with my prior company). My employer withholds 7.5% or "half" of the Social Security/Medicare 15% and I was told that will need to pay the other 7.5%. How does that work?  Thanks in advance!

but maybe it's a place where bargaining and haggling for everything is expected.  He may figure that your 'final offer' may be a whole lot lower than what he's been paying. You already proved that by reducing your price to 9 cents, and now he doesn't believe you're worth even that.  You gave him a 10% discount, now he wants 50%.  Soon you'd be paying HIM for the privilege of working for him.

I also would have charged him some kind of accounting fee for the time it took me to recaluclate the line count for billing.  What?  You should work for free to do this? If he did not understand that 65 characters equal a line, no matter on which line they appear, then he is definitely not bright enough to be a doctor.  I think he was just yanking your chain on this so see how much he could get away with. 

I'd let him leave and go with the new company.  When the honeymoon is over, their ESL MTs can't understand his ESL dictation and they don't meet TAT and their quality is crummy maybe he'll be willing to pay the 10 cents.  At that point, if he contacted me to take over again, I'd ask for 12 and settle for 11....  maybe.