This is an age old question, but what does everyone doing for paying flat rate techs for MPVI's?
I am fairly new to a GM store that has been hourly tech pay since inception and have put in a flat rate pay plan starting April 1st (no joke).
Needless to say, the line techs are a little on edge... Especially the ones that I am paying 40 hours to that are only producing 28-32 hours consistently. Now that the fact that they are going flat rate is sinking in, the questions and grumblings are coming quickly- the hot button being what they are going to get paid to do MPVI's.
As of last week the only vehicles that recieved an MPVI were oil changes, starting yesterday I put a policy in place that we will inspect 100% of the vehicles in the shop excluding some recalls and vehicles returning for special order parts within a set time frame. My thought process tells me that the same visit upsell being less than $10/RO is unacceptable, and that by inspecting all customer vehicles we are building trust with the customer so that when we DO find a legitimate repair the customer will have US do the work. My mind also tells me as a former tech and 9 year Service Manager that not paying techs to do MPVI's is pretty common- it puts the responsibility on their shoulders for helping create their own economy basically. It cannot be soley laid on the advisers to keep the techs busy 100% of the time, its a team effort!
So, now that I have spewed all that out, what does everyone else do for MPVI pay? (We currently pay techs .6 for a LOF/MPVI, NO time for an MPVI without LOF).
Thanks!