Your job provide any fringe benefits?

[Arrowslinger]

I have three:

1. Email

2. Personal unlimited Nextel

3. Three meals a week

[HotelSecurity]

Free meal every shift

Insurance including dental but not eyes

Free room when I have to do a back to back

Employee rate at Intercontential & Starwood hotels

Friends and family rate to anyone I want to give it to at my hotels

Family rate at other Starwood hotels for family. (Some Intercontential also offer it)

Internet

Pager that I use as much for personal as work

Dry cleaning

2 suits and 3 shirts

If I had a car, free parking

[OccamsRazor]

Shin splints, bone spurs....

[mh892]

Shin splints, bone spurs....

You about caused me to pop a few staples outta my stomach Mr. R. LOL.

[SecureTN]

No medical... No meals... 10% off SOME mall purchases.

[Mr. Security]

Zip, nada. We even have to pay for our own guard cards.

[EMTGuard]

Zip, nada. We even have to pay for our own guard cards.

Same. The company holds the fee out of our check, they send us the blank card and it's up to us to go to a CVS or Wal-greens stoore to get a passport size photo and laminate the card. At least they provide uniforms.

[Mr. Security]

Same. The company holds the fee out of our check, they send us the blank card and it's up to us to go to a CVS or Wal-greens stoore to get a passport size photo and laminate the card. At least they provide uniforms.

I could understand signing an agreement to refund the fee to the company on a prorated basis if one left before the license expired. Unfortunately, the legislature, in its infinite wisdom, didn't include any wording in the new law that the company must incur the expense, so we have to eat it.

[FederalSecurity]

Where I work there are a few fringe benefits.

1) Free uniforms and equipment when hired and $300.00 for uniform and

equipment allowance per year.

2) $300.00 for boots when hired and another $300.00 for boot allowance per

year.

3) Free prescription safety glasses.

4) Discounts on rifles, pistols, and accessories.

5) A supply warehouse full of everything from briefcases to pens and

markers to recordable cds to pocket knives and padlocks. This place has

just about everything and it's all free.

6) Health and life insurance.

7) Thift Savings Plan with matching funds from the government.

8) New dental and vision plans.

9) Federal retirement.

We're also supposed to be reimbursed for any college classes we take that

pertain to our duties at work. Unfortunately, some high level supervisors say

we can, but others say we can't. We can't get a straight answer from

anyone.

[Lawson]

Full Medical and I think full dental, but it might be 80%.

Discount on COSTCO membership.

I will have to look again at my benefit package...

[Bill Warnock]

Where I work there are a few fringe benefits.

1) Free uniforms and equipment when hired and $300.00 for uniform and

equipment allowance per year.

2) $300.00 for boots when hired and another $300.00 for boot allowance per

year.

3) Free prescription safety glasses.

4) Discounts on rifles, pistols, and accessories.

5) A supply warehouse full of everything from briefcases to pens and

markers to recordable cds to pocket knives and padlocks. This place has

just about everything and it's all free.

6) Health and life insurance.

7) Thift Savings Plan with matching funds from the government.

8) New dental and vision plans.

9) Federal retirement.

It has been awhile, but if the tax codes have not changed, half of what you spend keeping your uniforms cleaned or dry-cleaned can be taken off as deduction.
Enjoy the day,
Bill

[FederalSecurity]

Bill,

I'll have to check on these things, but they already sound promising.

[hemi444]

Major medical bc/bs

Eye

Dental

$250,000 accidental/dismemberment @ $10.00 a month

$50,000 death benefit paid by the company.

Five year retirement plan option.

100% tuition for any class as long as it is security related training or college.

[N. A. Corbier]

I could understand signing an agreement to refund the fee to the company on a prorated basis if one left before the license expired. Unfortunately, the legislature, in its infinite wisdom, didn't include any wording in the new law that the company must incur the expense, so we have to eat it.

That's not wisdom on their part. You're the guard, you get to pay for the license to practice your occupation. If they mandated the employer pay for the employee's license, it would start a dangerous precident in every licensed industry.

Construction workers (contractors) suddenly demanding that the GC firm pay for their license fees. Everyone from cops to nurses to chefs (all regulated by some kind of licensing, in most states) would have a big case.

I've never heard of a state that makes the employer pay for the occupational license. Even better, if they have to pay... You'd have to find a guard company to hire you before you could get your license. Which means that they could effectively choose who works in the industry in that state.

[SecureTN]

Wackenhut paid for my license up front, but it was taken from my check. Securitas paid for my license, I never recieved my license, but they still deducted from my pay.