Chapter $7,$ Question $10$

Ravi Shah is the food and beverage director at the St$.$ Andrews Golf Course and Conference Center. The facility is a

popular place for weddings, and Ravi finds that on many Friday and Saturday nights, the banquet space at St$.$ Andrews is

completely booked. That is good news, but Ravi also finds that Allisha, the one full$-$time $($paid $$20\mathrm{.}00$ per hour$)$ employee

he has utilized as a supervisor for the banquet area is averaging $15$ hours overtime per week.

Ravi is considering three alternative courses of action:

$1$ Maintain the status quo and pay Allisha for $55$ hours per week.

$2$ Create a salaried position, schedule the employee who holds the position $55$ hours per week, and pay that

$3$ Split the job into two part$-$time positions of $30$ and $25$ hours per week and pay these employees $$22\mathrm{.}50$ per

Assume the following:

Overtime is paid at $1\mathrm{.}5$ times the normally paid rate.

The operation's benefit package for part$-$time employees is $20$ percent of the wages paid to them.

The operation's benefit package for full$-$time employees is $35$ percent of the wages paid to them.

$,$ All full$-$time employees receive $2$ weeks paid vacation per year which has been included in the benefit package

Which of these three courses of action will cost the facility the most money?

Which of these three courses of action will cost the facility the least money?$***$ Please give answers along with formula for the answers.$*****$