Managing your Labor Force
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In order for a shoppe to produce goods it must have the hard labor of Pirates. To manage your stall or shoppe's labor, use the "Manage Labor" option on your "Manage the Shoppe" interface. As you can see from the Order Products interface, each type of goods requires a certain amount of labor:
Labor is categorized into basic, skilled and expert, and as described above in the taking a job section, the quality will be determined by the standing of the Pirate at the particular laboring puzzle.
Configuring Labor Salaries and Charged Rates
In order to get your shoppe hiring, the salary paid to Pirates for various grades of labor must be set and the charged rate for that labour applied.
Set up your rates of pay as you see appropriate, but make sure that your charged rates are higher than the salaries paid out, or you will make a loss! Labor should be marked up as if it were another commodity, with a higher cost (charged rate) than the buy price (salary).
Changing Wages
The wages at which a pirate was hired are the wages by which that pirate is paid. This prevents an unsavory shopkeeper from advertisting great rates, and then sneakily decreasing them after pirates sign up for work. This means that if you want to revise a Pirate's pay downwards, you will have to fire them and re-hire them at the lower rate.
Keeping it in the Family
Secondly, some shops choose to hire up a suitable workforce and then cease hiring, to keep work 'within the family'. To remove a job offer, uncheck the "Now Hiring" button on the "Wages and Charged Rates" screen. Managing Staff
To see who is working for you and what rates they're being paid, or to fire employees, use the "Staff" tab of the "Manage Labor Force" screen.
Labor Report
Employees are selected to work in a round robin fashion; i.e., one after another, depending on their availability. In the "Manage the Shoppe" radial, choose "Manage Labor" and look in the "Labor Report" tab to see how and when your employees have been contributing.
Managers
If you own a shoppe, or your stall is "medium" or "deluxe," you may appoint a manager or managers to help you run your business. Be very careful when picking managers, as managers can remove anything they want to from your business! To add a manager, go to the "Edit Managers" tab on the "Manage Labor Force" screen, type in your new manager's name, and click "Add Manager." You can also delete managers from this screen. A medium stall may have one manager, a deluxe stall may have two, and shoppes are allowed five managers.