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Part-Time Employee Benefits

We recently have run into some employees starting to work part-time and are curious as to what other agencies do as far as benefits go. I will be one of the employees going part-time and plan to work only about 15 hours per week after I have my baby. We have another employee who is now working 25 hours per week.

We are interested in knowing how you handle sick/personal days, holidays, vacation days, and health and dental insurance, if you even offer these benefits to part-time employees at all. I'd be interested in knowing a formula or weighted average of how to give partial benefits to part-time employees based on the level of hours they work each week or to what degree they are part-time.

I'm open to any suggestions or opinions.

Thanks,

Jane Summers Financial Manager Blair Communications

It would be best for you to consult your health insurance broker, or evensomeone from the insurance company because some plans are designed in such away that people who work less than a certain number of hours per week areexcluded from coverage. Hopefully, you won't have to revise your plandocuments to accommodate part-timers, but it is a possibility. Hope thathelps.

Terry L. Jones, Jr. Controller Harvey and Daughters, Inc.

We only offer benefits to those employees working 30 hours or more. And then it's a full benefits package.

Mary McMurtrey Just Partners

Our agency also does not offer a benefits package of any kind to employees working less than 30 hours per weeks. This has been the case at every agency I have worked for. Unfortunately, I think this is pretty much a standard.

Denise Dixon Barradas Yeaton & Wold

If we have a good employee that we want to keep and they work a specified amount of hours per week we do offer benefits a pro-rated amount. You usually cannot do that with your insurance because most plans you specify what the requirements are at the time you sign up. In other words you only offer this plan to employees who work 40 hours a week. If you are re-negotiating a plan you can change that if you know you are going to have some › time or part time employees. When I started I was working 21 hours a week but as a regular employee I was offered benefits. In this day and age when your employees want more flexibility in their schedules it is a good incentive to offer more to keep them happy and doing a good job!

Kathi Landis Accounting Soul Creative Company, Inc.

All Holiday, Sick/Personal, Vacation, and Bereavement Leave benefits are prorated for our part time employees. If our employees work less than 25 hours we don't offer them ADD and Life Insurance, LTD, STD and tuition reimbursement. If an employee works less than 30 hours we don't offer Medical Insurance. Otherwise they receive all of the rest of our benefits.

Jennifer Glick Rainier Corporation

Same here, no benefits for part-timers unless it is negotiated as part of the persons pay.

Cindy Nelson HenryGill Advertising

We give our part time employees who average 20 hours/week "half" benefits for sick and vacation and holiday time. Our insurance allows us to give dental coverage for part-timers, but not medical.

We value and appreciate our loyal part-timers, and often grow them into full-time staff once their schedule allows, so we strive to find every way possible to let them know they are valued.

best,

Shay Stockdill Strategies

We have 2 (including myself, the business manager) employees who work 32 hours per week (4 days) and both get pro-rated benefits, for example, since they are working 80% of full time, they get 80% of the benefits (specifically vacation and sick time). I had negotiated that she cover 100% of my health insurance premium and she offered that to the other guy who also works 4 days when he started.

The are a lot of health insurance companies who seem to not want to cover employees who are not technically "full time" which is considered 30 hours or more per week. They require us to fill out an audit form and send a copy of our payroll tax return, but I don't think they would ever take the time to find out how many hours you are actually working, so I don't think there's any great risk.

We do have one other employee who works 20 hours per week and she doesn't get any paid vacation or sick time, but our employer does pay for 50% of her health insurance.

All the part time employees are eligible for our profit sharing retirement program, provided we work enough hours (which for our program is 1000 per year).

Hope this helps!

Catherine Colangelo The Phillips Agency