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Subject:Re: Employment Status & Benefits From:DURL <durl -at- BUFFNET -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 6 May 1998 11:36:03 -0400
Here in NYS, your employer is not required to give any benefits
beyond those mandated by law. Worker's Comp and Fed & State Unemployment
Insurance, and I think disability, are mandated by law.
Your employer is *not* required to give you any benefits--health
insurance, sick time, paid vacation time.
The only other law that I can think of that applies is the law
that, unless you're an "exempt" employee, you have to be paid time and a
half for any time worked over 40 hours a week. "Exempt" traditionally
includes managers and engineers and "professionals."
I got my info from the NYS Dept of Labor. Check in your state if
this stuff interests you.
Mary
Mary Durlak Erie Documentation Inc.
East Aurora, New York (near Buffalo)
durl -at- buffnet -dot- net
