ok, now that the coast is clear...
my company was basically forced into going employee based (before they 98% used sub-contractors) because the communications company mandated that of their contractors. so essentially they did this with as little benefit for their employees as possible, just enough to keep their contract.
they offer no payed maternal leave. if you don't have any pay saved, you're just fucked.
you get minimum wage for vacation and holiday pay. this is designed because they need a workforce no matter what's going on (who wants to use vacation time if you get paid minum wage?) most working class people cannot afford that.
vacation time does not roll over into the next year.
they make it appear as though we get paid hourly, when we donnot. we get paid production and then break the amount of hours we're in the field with our production scale. it's good for them because they donnot have to pay overtime...
essentially the techs assume all liabilities as before except we get paid less and have shitty company benefits.