Questions tagged [benefits]
Questions related to non-monetary compensation and 'perks' that are offered by many employers.
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Can I opt out of employer-sponsored health insurance? [closed]
I'm in the US.
I'm happy to say that my employer offers a quality health insurance plan using a nationwide carrier. My only option is to opt in to a lower deductible with a higher premium -- same ...
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Relocation package and benefits on offer contract
Yesterday, I received a call from a company in the UK, and they let me know that they are willing to make an offer for the software engineer position. The hiring manager asked me my desired salary and ...
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FMLA 12-week limit (US)
I'm about to take a 16-week period of unpaid leave. My employer will maintain my medical cover for the first 12 weeks of that, as required by FMLA. However, they are actually willing to maintain cover ...
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Can I demand benifits that my research(performed on personal capacity) accepted in a recognized publication?
Recently my research publication got accepted for publication in a reputed science journal. It is based on my work during my graduation and I'm a coauthor with my university supervisor. The ...
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How to handle changing compensation policies and employee expectations
This is a story I heard from an acquaintance, and I was wondering how I would handle it if I were the boss in this situation.
The organization used to have a policy of giving employees a salary ...
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Company rescinds offer after inquiring about benefits, what did I do wrong?
I received a casual job offer through email after writing an interview follow-up. By casual, I mean there was no professional letter just a response stating, “We would like to offer you the position ...
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How can I tell how much my skills are worth in terms of salary + benefits?
I expect to be entering the workforce soon, as an entry-level software developer. At this point, I'm just happy to have a job so compensation isn't my highest concern yet. However, I anticipate this ...
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Why does health insurance end at termination day instead of last day of termination month?
At my company all benefits end at termination day. I thought companies pay health insurance companies for a full month or longer so why does health insurance end at termination day? Do companies pay ...
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Interviewed yesterday, they emailed me a benefits brochure shortly after. Is this a good sign, or common for companies to do?
Interviewed yesterday for a company, about 3 hours afterwards, the HR person I've been in contact with sent me their benefits brochure. Its just like a 2-page information sheet, not like a full in-...
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Who to ask about the benefits mentioned in job description and offer letter
When starting a new job, who is the correct person to ask about the benefits mentioned in the job description and offer letter, the direct manager of the new employee, the internal recruiter who ...
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Why aren't hearing tests offered, in the same way as an eye test?
In the UK, employee benefits often include a paid-for or reimbursable sight test, once every 2 years. Packages usually provide £200, for the cost of an eye test and eyewear required to perform your ...
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Is there an occupation that has an hour paid lunch? [closed]
How uncommon is longer than an hour paid lunch? Would it be unwise to try to negotiate for an hour paid lunch after being offered a white collar job?
For example, I am an electrical engineer with ...
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My whole team is leaving because they hate 'work from home.' How do I get them to stay? [closed]
I'm a manager at a consulting firm and 3 out of 5 people have left the team because they are 'fed up' with work from home. They say theres no boundaries between professional and personal work and they ...
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Unemployment benefit: living in Canada, have worked in Germany [closed]
I have worked for 1 year and 3 months in Germany, and I was entitled to unemployment insurance in Germany up to six months with %60-%70 of my salary. I have recently moved to Canada, and I am ...
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Could I request paternity leave while I am on two weeks notice?
I found a job out of state (east coast USA), and it starts January 19. Due to the complications of moving and also family obligations, I can't really work effectively during the normal two-week notice ...
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Disagreement over termination date [closed]
I am resigning. My current employer terminates my benefits immediately. My prospective employer wants to start me at the end of November. I requested to end my employment the day before. However, that ...
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Requesting a laptop for work
I've composed a message for my boss, and I will send it later today. But I would like to seek help or suggestions first.
For context:
My work as a programmer is remote. The company is based in the US,...
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Do industrial research scientists get rewards for their innovation?
I am deciding if I should follow the academic path or work in industry. One of the perceived benefits of academia is the ownership of your own work, be it papers or patents. I want to know how much ...
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Childcare FSA was entered incorrectly and HR says they can't address the issue
During open enrollment, I opened FSAs for healthcare and childcare which are "known" expenses for my family to take advantage of the tax break and account balance forwarding. Like any other ...
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Should I ask for reimbursement of unclaimable vacation prize after being terminated as severance pay?
I was just terminated from my position at a tech company in Canada. During the holiday Christmas party, I won a draw for some kind of all-inclusive vacation to be reimbursed as a taxable benefit by ...
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How to negotiate ESOP scheme after signing work contract?
I am about to start a new job at a tech firm. The original offer includes base salary + ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) scheme. The contract I've signed so far is not concerned with the ESOP ...
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Could I ask my employer to exchange my holiday vacation prize with something more relevant due to global travel shutdown?
Shortly after starting a new job last year, I won a non-specific vacation of my choosing to the tune of a few thousand dollars as a taxable benefit. Now that the pandemic has sort of shut down global ...
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new job delay starting due to Coronavirus
I was supposed to start my new job on March 16, after quitting my old job (my last day was 3/1)
I have already signed a contract with my start date included, but two things:
I asked to postpone the ...
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What is "maturity leave?"
I just saw this ad on StackOverflow:
What is the advertised "Maturity leave?" Does it mean time off to care for parents/aging relatives, similar to how paternity leave is time off when an employee ...
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Remote Work: Asking for a Raise To Backfill Previous Benefits
TLDR; Can I use the fact that I'm a remote employee and thus no longer use several company benefits (that I originally used when in a physical office i.e. Commuter reimbursement, free lunch on fridays)...
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How can an employee appropriately influence an employer to add a high deductible plan (with HSA) to their medical benefits offered?
Is it realistic for an employee to influence an employer, and the HR department, to add a high-deductible health plan to the medical benefits offered by the company?
In this case, the employee ...
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Appeals process when employer fails to enroll an employee's dependent in health insurance
I live and work in New York City; my employer is a large not-for-profit (thousands of employees). This past November I enrolled in my employer's annual benefits-enrollment period. For the first time ...
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First employee engagement survey - should I address that my pay is not enough?
My department’s HR people have started running an employee engagement survey, and they expect everyone to participate. This is the first one they’ve administered since I started last year. Although ...
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How to negotiate for a benefit that has become important to me only now?
There are various questions about how to ask to work from home. I think this is not a duplicate because first, in the other questions, the very idea of working from home is either something novel in ...
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Examples & most common benefits/remuneration in kind in Austria
I wonder what are the most common packages that are usually negotiated instead of money; examples and cases based on your experience.
I would focus on positions in Austria (so I would consider neither ...
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Is it okay to count overtime hours when deciding to go home for the day?
I work as a software engineer in a relatively nice office, with several benefits and a great working environment.
Sometimes I decide to work overtime to get some things done before leaving for the ...
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Confirming extensive health care coverage before accepting a job
I have a special needs child. My child is autistic and requires hours of therapy each week: ABA, OT, Speech, etc.
I have always worked at a large well-known company with excellent medical and health-...
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Employer says they want Quality & Quantity, but only pays bonuses based on the latter
I work in a company that, like any other company, expects high quality and quantity of the product (service). I am a quality person who meets the production demands. However, many of my colleagues ...
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Should I provide my employee company-paid training/conferences for non-work-related skills?
I am a manager of a software developer whom I really want to retain because he is a high performer and a joy to work with.
In our 1:1 meetings, he has expressed the desire to learn a skill which is ...
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How to keep the same pediatrician [closed]
I'm looking at switching jobs and the new provider doesn't have our paediatrician in its network. My son has had a few health problems and we wouldn't want to change doctors or specialist. Is it ...
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Company can't pay additional education/courses coming months
I work at an European company for 1,5 years now (50-100 employees) and I'm the only one in my job role. Management has a "learning by experience" mentality which means you just learn by doing, not by ...
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No Tuition Assistance Program benefit on offer letter
I got an offer letter today and what I want most is not on the offer letter - Tuition Assistance Benefit. I have accepted the offer before realising this (my bad). I am going to call the recruiter ...
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Manager offered a salary range
I am interning at a startup; my internship ends in a month. I was recently called in by my manager and offered a full time position as I have already graduated. In addition, he gave me a range of the ...
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How do I ensure my employees don't abuse my flexible work hours policy?
At my small sized company (~10-15 people) I have always had a very liberal policy on work hours. My employees can choose their own hours as long as.
They are in the office from 11am-2pm
They average ...
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How should i ask my boss about remote work that he promised?
A few months ago I received a raise that came with the possibility of one day of remote work per week. The raise was reflected on my salary on the next pay but the remote work wasn't. How should I ...
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Appropriate time to ask about salary and benefits for internship?
I have an interview for a software development internship tomorrow, and I'm unsure about when to ask about 1. how much it will be paid, if at all, and 2. if there is pro rata paid time off for holiday....
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Small business - cheapskate owners
I work for a small business and the owners are pretty cheap. Every year we get bonus and a small raise, but compared to the profit they makes, it's pretty negligible considering the fact that there ...
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What issues occur when changing medical insurance mid-year?
I received an e-mail from our HR Department the other day informing us that they may change our medical insurance carrier on June 1st. For context, our company has approximately 50 employees and is ...
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Good gift/thank-you for Human Resources?
I have a great HR department. They really do a nice job. For example, they recently set us up with a pre-tax benefit that put about $1000 in my pocket.
What's a good way to thank them?
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Is it rude to compare specific benefits during a salary negotiation?
I will be negotiating salary soon, and I THINK the salary range will be a nice increase for me, but I will lose some strong benefits.
Is it impolite to be specific and compare benefits during the ...
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Engineer refusing to file/disclose patents
We have a senior engineer on our team that routinely excels at his work. In addition to his regular work, our company has a patent program where engineers can write up a patent for a novel idea, and ...
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Should I accept more responsibility when being granted a raise I asked because I felt underpaid?
7 months ago I landed a job as a web developer for a specific technology, it payed a little bit under the market average for the position.
When I started in the new place I noticed the methodologies ...
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Late contract package
I have been working for my company for a year part-time, but I have got a promotion to become a full-time worker. My company had been applying the new hourly rate, but it has been over two weeks ...
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How to convince employer to set up a 401(k)
My employer promised (not in writing, I know) that they would add a 401k after I joined. It has been 2 years and we still don't have one. When I brought it up most recently, I was told that their ...
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Is it concerning for a small US employer to not have have a maternity leave policy in the job offer?
I was recently made a job offer by a US firm (for our purposes, a sub-50-person tech startup with significant VC support).
I was surprised to see that there was nothing about maternity/paternity ...
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