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Compensation and Benefits

Compensation

Associate Directors start at a baseline salary of $5,000 per month ($60,000 annually), which is inflation-adjusted on an annual basis. An annual bonus is determined around December 1 based on the overall performance of the company, at the discretion of the Directors.

Employees are never required to work overtime but may do so at their own discretion. Continuous overtime work should be brought up in the weekly staff meeting, as it can lead to burnout.

Payroll runs aton the endfirst of the each month.

Healthcare 

Employees under both full-time and part-time contracts are eligible for healthcare coverage.

[insert details of package once decided]

Pension

[to be researched]

Remote Working

As punctum books has no central office locations, all its employees work from home or remotely. For each employee, an assessment will be made with regards to their hardware and software needs, as well as any subscriptions to online services and database credentials that may be necessary. These will be covered by punctum.

Employees are encouraged to be proactive in requesting any additional equipment that may make their work from home more efficient. Any hardware provided by punctum under this arrangement remains its property and should be returned upon termination of a contract.

Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]

All employees receive a set of punctum books business cards.

Employee Expenses

There are some expenses that we will pay directly on your behalf (e.g. hotel rooms for work-related travel.) But, we ask you to keep track and report on those reimbursable expenses that you pay yourself. We reimburse employee expenses that are related to:

Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
  • Lodging and travel costs for conferences and other punctum-related gatherings;
  • Continued education and training (after prior consultation with the Directors);
    Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
    Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]

Please keep receipts of reimbursable expenses. These can be submitted up to three months after the expense was incurred to the CFO and will be reimbursed within in two working days via bank transfer.

Professional development 

(we will work on this verbiage) we want to have budgeted professional development experiences

Staff can do these experiences by request and we will finance those 

Punctum is committed to the professional development of its staff 

People will be able to go back to school without losing their job 

Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
Please keep receipts for all reimbursable expenses. You can submit them to your manager [through our expense software] within [three months] after the date of each expense. If your manager approves your expenses, you will receive your reimbursement within [two] pay periods [by check.]
  • [Business travel]
  • [Relocation]
  • [Education and training]
  • [Upon approval, outings with business partners or colleagues]
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