Employee Benefits
Listed below are links to articles about specific employee
benefits that are required by law or voluntarily provided
by employers.
Employee Benefits Topics
About Employee Benefits
Contrary to popular belief, employers are not required by
law to provide some of the employee benefits that many
have anyway. Read more about employee benefits.
Legal Holidays
Legal holidays explained in terms of employment, plus a list
of legal holidays designated as such by Federal law. Also
referred to as legal paid holidays and legal
public holidays.
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Bereavement
Leave Benefits
Discover if your employee rights entitle you to take time
off from work to attend visitations, wakes or funerals. Also
called funeral leave benefits.
COBRA
Health Insurance Benefits
About the Federal law that grants to qualified employees,
the right to extend their employer-provided health insurance
benefits during periods of unemployment. HIPAA information
included.
Family
and Medical Leave Benefits
Explains employee benefits under the Family and Medical Leave
Act (FMLA), a Federal law that entitles qualified workers
to take unpaid sick leave to care for themselves or family
members. Mentions maternity, paternity and child-adoption
leave, and leave arising from a family member's military
duty.
Leave
of Absence Employee Benefits
Find out if your employee rights entitle you to take a medical
leave of absence or personal leave of absence.
Paid
Holidays
Federal workers are entitled to paid holidays, under a "holiday
pay law". But there is no such law for private-sector workers.
Learn more about this employee benefit.
Paid
Time Off (PTO) Employee Benefits
Explains employee rights regarding paid time off or PTO for
short. PTO employee benefits include vacation, sick leave,
and personal days.
Severance
Pay
Whether or not you're entitled to receive severance pay from
your employer, after quitting or losing your job. Includes
information about severance pay laws and severance agreements.
Sick
Leave Employee Benefits
Learn whether or not your employee rights entitle you to
sick leave benefits.
Social
Security Disability Benefits
About the disability insurance and Supplemental Security
Income (SSI) benefits provided by the U.S. Social Security
Administration (SSA).
State
Disability Insurance Benefits
Information about the short-term disability insurance that
five states and the Commonwealth of Puerto provide or require
employers to include among their employee benefits.
Vacation
Benefits
General information about employee vacation leave benefits
under state and Federal laws. Includes accrued vacation pay.
Workers'
Compensation Benefits
The basics of state workers' compensation benefits, including
claims, eligibility and appeals. Provides links for further
researching same, specifically for the state in which you
work.
See Unemployment for
information about employee benefits from state unemployment
insurance and Federal disaster unemployment assistance.
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