Compensating Employees

• 1Are a MAJORITY of your FULL-TIME employees salaried, hourly, commissioned including tipped or is it mixed?
• 1aAre a MAJORITY of your PART-TIME employees salaried, hourly, commissioned including tipped or is it mixed?
• 2How do you determine if a specific employee who works more than 40 hours per week should receive overtime pay? Do you:?Top 100 question
• 2aWithin the last five years, have you been sued or seriously threatened with a suit for allegedly not paying overtime or enough overtime?
• 3Do your full-time employees receive periodic bonuses or profit-sharing based on performance of the business?
• 4How many full-time employees, INCLUDING tipped employees, do you currently pay the minimum wage or less?
• 4aHow many full-time TIPPED employees do you currently pay the minimum wage or less? OR don’t you have any tipped employees?
• 5Do you have full-time employees who have been employed for at least a year?
• 6A(benefit) Paid vacations.
• 6B(benefit) Paid sick leave.
• 6C(benefit) Disability insurance.
• 6D(benefit) Life insurance.
• 6E(benefit) Health insurance.
• 6E1Was there an implied tie-in between your purchase of health and life insurance, that is to say, you couldn't purchase health insurance under the terms you did without also purchasing life insurance?
• 6F(benefit) Dental Insurance.
• 6G(benefit) A pension plan.
• 6H(benefit) Job-related education reimbursement.
• 6I(benefit) Paid jury duty.
• 6J(benefit) A cafeteria-type plan that allows each employee to spend the dollars allocated for benefits on his or her preferred mix of benefits.
• 6K(benefit) Discounted or free goods or services from your business.
• 6K1About how much is this benefit worth to the typical full-time employee on an annual basis?
• 6L(benefit) Flexible working hours when personal situations arise, such as having to attend a funeral or picking up a child stranded at school.
• 6L1Do you have an explicit policy for personal situations or do you handle them on a case-by-case basis?
• 7Are your part-time employees generally eligible to receive the same benefits on a pro-rata basis as your full-time employees?Top 100 question
• 8If you wanted to give your employees the equivalent of an additional $1.00 per hour, would you be most likely to give it to them in:?
• 8aIf your employees were to get the equivalent of an additional $1.00 per hour, how do you think they would want the increase? Would they want the increase in:?Top 100 question
• 9Who do you target for your benefit package when making decisions about the type and size of benefits you provide? Do you target:?

Volume 3, Issue 2, 2003
ISSN 1534-8326

William J. Dennis, Jr
NFIB Research Foundation