Hourly pay rewards presence, salary rewards availability, and paying by the job rewards speed. Owners writing rules to correct behavior are usually correcting their own incentive.
The wage is the smallest number in the calculation and the only one most owners run. The rest of it decides whether the hire works or quietly drains the year.
An adjuster applies a policy to a set of facts. Most claim disputes come down to whose description of those facts was written down first and in more detail.
The decision is usually made weeks before the conversation happens. What separates a clean parting from a lasting problem is entirely what was prepared beforehand.