"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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"Small" business is notorious for shortchanging its employees.


Not true at all in my experience. If anything, small businesses consider
their employees to be very valuable contributors and tend to treat them
accordingly.

Stick to your big business and Wal-Mart stories.

Eisboch


Your personal experience obviously is different.

The only small businesses I know of that for sure have good benefits are
unionized construction contractors, because the bennies are negotiated as
part of the overall "pay" package.

Thus, an electrician whose union negotiates a $50 an hour rate, might get
$35 an hour gross for pay, and the remainder is split among health care,
retirement, whatever. The union and its members decide how much of that
gross dollar amount does to "pay" and how much goes to bennies.

Typically, the contracts also cover the contractor and his/her office
employees.

That happens to be the kind of health insurance I have right now.

My employee's have:

3 weeks paid vacation.

Paid holidays.

2 sick days.

Health insurance ($250 deductible; BC/BS PPO)--I pay 85% of premium (used to
be 100% that I paid...but premiums are up 100% in past 7 years)


Simple IRA Savings Plan (3% matching)

So now you know of another small business with good benefits...and we're not
even unionized.