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| 11 Companies Offering Health Care Benefits To Part-time Workers Posted: 23 Jan 2014 04:30 PM PST Costco Part-time employees may be eligible for health care, including dental and medical, on the first month after working 180 days of employment, the company says on its website. Employees may be able to take advantage of Costco’s in-house optical centers for vision care. Costco also has a pharmacy program with its in-house pharmacies for discounted co-payments on generic medications as low as $5, and a co-pay that is generally capped at 15 percent for branded drugs. Costco’s employee website says all employees whose families qualify can receive enroll in the company’s “Dependent Care Assistance Plan,” which allows workers to pay for day care for children under 13, as well as adult day care, with pre-tax dollars and can save you from $750 to $2,000 a year. Employees at the hourly level may not be eligible however, for other benefits, such as paid holidays and 401(k) matching, according to Bob Nelson, Costco’s vice president of financial planning. |
| Occupational Health News Roundup Posted: 23 Jan 2014 04:23 AM PST Their boss eventually sent them home, and shut the warehouse the next day, but a worker reportedly suffered frostbite after being ordered to work in sub-zero temperatures on the following day, Eidelson reports. Later, workers presented management with a petition for heaters they say only the break room and bathrooms are heated and a request that the company release its OSHA logs. Walmart workers and the subcontracted workers in Walmart-supplying warehouses have mounted a series of strikes in recent years, and some have filed lawsuits. Marketplaces Mitchell Hartman reported last week on two legal victories for these workers and their advocates: On Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Christina Snyder, of Californias Central District, reaffirmed an earlier decision that a class-action lawsuit (Carrillo v. |
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