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 decision is usually made weeks before the conversation happens. What separates a clean parting from a lasting problem is entirely what was prepared beforehand.
All three feel like costs of earning a living, because they are, and all three are generally not deductible. One piece of reasoning explains every one of them.