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![]() "Harry Krause" wrote in message . .. Eisboch wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message news:baadnSedEYn- "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. In order to attract, train and retain valuable employees, non-union small businesses more often than not offer: Competitive wages in line with businesses in the same industry. Fully paid or majority of cost paid health and dental plans. Workman's comp insurance. Profit sharing in many cases. Retirement plans with company contributions (varies on financial capability of company) Advancement, raises and promotions based on merit. (Important) Holidays, vacations, personal time and owner's "screw it, it's a beautiful day, let's pay everyone for a full day and knock off early". Lack of "them" vs. "us" culture. I've worked for three small businesses, founded and owned another, one "big" business and 9 years of military in my working career. We often interfaced with large, unionized companies. My old filing cabinet is full of résumé's and job applications from many union employees that wanted a breath of fresh air. There aren't many small, unionized businesses, other than small construction companies that draw from the union pool for employees. And they tend to be here today, gone tomorrow operations. Eisboch |
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