On today's Alley Oaf - 18 November 2020

 Keeping in mind that this is Alley Oaf, not the once great Alley Oop, apparently Oaf and Foola somehow formed a union since they apparently are now employees of Doc. Joey teased this union idea a couple or more years ago. Just another silly, unnecessary added wrinkle to this inferior product. The time lab traditionally hardly had enough money to even operate, much less pay wages, which Oop would have had no use for anyway.

 In the real Oop strips, the relationship between Doc and Oop et al was pretty much informal. Doc would get Oop to do some time trips for adventure or to get funds for the Time Lab, like when Oop went back into the old West to find out where some bank robbers had hidden their stolen chest with gold so it could be retrieved from the hiding place in the time frame of the modern lab. Or when O. L. Driller paid them to go to Earth 2 in search of oil or some such. The idea of Oop being an employee was never mentioned.