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Question - employee benefits

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Ken

    The company that I work for is very small (4 employees). I am trying to figure out what other companies of similar sizes offer in the way of benefits.  Do you have any resources that would help?

Sincerely,

DG

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Response

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    If companies are willing to share this information it can be circulated anon.  Like any other business employers need to deal with vacation, sickness, family times, holidays, snow and other forced days when business is closed, retirement packages, working conditions, vehicles, reimburseable expenses, probably a few more things as an employer I'd rather not think about.  

Coincidently Ruth Kraft,Esq., who heads our Employment Law department sent me this article:

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MANDATORY PAID SICK LEAVE TO BE EXPANDED IN NYC

 

In 2013, I blogged about the passage of a NYC ordinance requiring employers having 20 or more workers to provide 5 dates of paid sick leave.  Businesses with 5 or more employees were required to provide 5 unpaid sick days. Today, Mayor DiBlasio will announce that,with the concurrence of the new Speaker of the City Coincil, the ordinance will be amended, effective immediately to require small businesses having 5 or more employees to provide  5 PAID sick days. If you have already made commitments for pay increases or other new employee benefits and this new financial burden is putting you "over the top", check your employee handbook.  If it does not contain a provision permitting the employer to change benefits in its sole discretion,from time to time, ouch!  If your employees have been militating for pay increases or additional benefits,you may want to factor what this update to the ordinance will cost you in 2014.

The trend toward paid sick leave is in steamroller mode right now nationwide.  I expect additional municipalities and states to mandate paid leave of up to 5 days per year to enable parents to attend their children's school meetings and programs. 

This is definitely on NYC's agenda and I anticipate such a measure to be adopted sometime this year.

Truthfully, once workers become aware that they have entitlement to these leaves (and, sigh, even if you just bought a new employee rights poster for 2014, you will need to post notice of this new wrinkle!) they will use every single minute to which they are entitled.

This makes it imperative for all clients which do not already provide paid sick time to NYC employees to review their benefits package, handbook language, and human resources procedures.

    For questions,please contact Judge Ruth Kraft, chair of the K&K employment law group at

(516) 747-6700 ext. 326 or RKraft@Kirschenbaumesq.com.

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Moderator:  Ken Kirschenbaum

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Who are the panelists:

    Scott Taylor, with Fi-Soft and manages the firms product development and partner relations activities..  Fi-Soft specializes in QuickBooks accounting software, training, and integrated solutions.  As a founding member of the Intuit Reseller Channel, Fi-Soft supports all versions of QuickBooks software and carries the highest level certifications from Intuit.  

    Mitch Reitman is a tax expert specializing in the alarm industry.  Besides accounting and tax work, he is an active and effective business consultant and alarm business broker.

    Thomas Aronica with SkyFinancial has a focus on credit card processing for the alarm industry including RMR processing, and integrates and works with Fi-Soft's Quick Books. 

Who should attend:  alarm company owners, office managers and those involved in alarm company nabagment, accounting and accounting records.  

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