Meet Cathy, the Cooperative Development Instituteâs new answerwoman! She can take on any co-op questions you might have, big or small. Today we ask: whatâs the difference between worker cooperatives and ESOPs? See all of Cathyâs answers and ask your own on her home page.
Home Depot â. As of 2014, part-time employees are no longer eligible for health insurance. However, Home Depot does offer part-timers a hospital indemnity plan, a critical illness protection plan, dental, vision, and term life insurance. Learn more about Home Depotâs benefits.taples â The office supply store really does try to make things easy, even for its part-time employees. After 90 days of service, all part-time associates are eligible for a fixed benefit health insurance plan. According to the Staples benefits page, the employee contribution is a very reasonable $20.96 per paycheck.
One reason is that it would be much more expensive for Starbucks. As lovely as the benefits sound, most Starbucks employees will not actually enjoy them. In China, the housing allowance is only for full-time employees at company-owned stores (or just 9,300 workers out of a total of 30,000 employees in China). And even full-time workers have to be at the company for six months before qualifying for the benefit. That means that only about a quarter of Starbucksâs workers in China will receive the allowance for the foreseeable future.