HR & Employment Law Question
aspen29
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Dear Forum Members:
Our company is situated in New Jersey. I would like obtain the clarification for the following:
1. What is "Continuously Employed"?
2. Is any one of you paying benefits
(vacation,sick etc)for part time ee. If so,
what are minimum required hours?
Thank you.
Our company is situated in New Jersey. I would like obtain the clarification for the following:
1. What is "Continuously Employed"?
2. Is any one of you paying benefits
(vacation,sick etc)for part time ee. If so,
what are minimum required hours?
Thank you.
Comments
We do pay benefits to part-time EEs that average working at least 30 hours per week. They do pay an extra 10% premium. This may be dependent upon your specific plan so I would check with your provider.
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Our minimum required hours for benefits on a weekly basis is 32 hours or more per week. Should a part-time employee achieve 16 straight weeks of 32 hours or more he/she is entitled to all benefits of a regular employee and are coded as a full time employee even though they may drop back to less than 32 hours per pay week. Should there be a one week break in the cycle of 16 straight weeks the "clock" starts over.
Hope this helps.
PORK
My thanks to Popeye, Don, Gillian, Marc and Pork
for there prompt response to my questions.
Some of you wanted to know our company policies and here they are:
Our 50% of workforce is under Collective Bargaining Agreement - CBA. EE who work more than 32 hours are considered full time benefits and they are entitled to all benefits. However, PT are not entitled any benefits. As regard to "Continuous" employment, ee looses seniority for the following reasons
separation of employment; 3-day absence without cause and layoff over more than 6 months.
Further, we are planning to implement new benefits - vacation, sick and personal leaves for
exempt including management and non-exempt ees.
I am gathering the consensus for the following.
1. Duration of the introductory period
2. When benefits will start.
3. What type of benefits - vac, sick and
personal days.
4. How the accruals are calculated?
I really appreciate for your input.
Thank you.
2. Some benefits start immediately, Health Insurance and EE elective STD and LTD being the main ones. Dental is 30 days and then the 1st day of the next month. Vision the same. These periods are designated by the providers.
3. Three years or less gets 12 days vacation and 12 days sick leave. More than three years gets 18 vacation days per year. We award 2 personal days upon start and a Birthday in the month of birth.
4. Vacation and Sick leave accrue each bi-weekly pay period.
2. LTD, life at hire. Health and dental, 90 days
3. No personal
1-5 years, 2 weeks vacation, add a day per year thereafter to a maximum of 4 weeks
Sick, 3.1 hours per pay period
4. Also accrue per biweekly pay
My thanks to Marc and Sonny for their input. I will review further and make a proposal to my boss.
Thank you again.