# Employee Benefits **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 18, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employee-benefits/98923 "2002-03-18T20:18:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mighty\_maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@mighty\_maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mighty_maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employee-benefits/98923/1 "2002-03-18T20:18:38Z")
I read some where that if an employer works a part time employee for 40 hours a week over for a certain amount of time, and if that companie ffers benefits to fulltime employees they have to give said employee the same benefits. Can anyone enlighten me on this matter. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employee-benefits/98923/2 "2002-03-18T21:48:28Z")
This varies a lot state to state. For the best information you need to contact your state’s employment agency. (A good place to start is [http://www.state.ny.us/](http://www.state.ny.us/) (substituting your state’s abbreviation for ‘ny’)). In many states, under certain circumstances, if you are listed as a “part-time” employee but work 40 hours or more, your employer is obligated to treat you as a full time employee. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2002, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/employee-benefits/98923/3 "2002-03-18T22:02:27Z")
This is true for the Federal Government. If you were employed full time in the same job for 2 years, they had to create a permanent position for _someone_ to fill the temp position you were performing. Results: a six month LTE contract, renewed regularly, with a week of unpaid (and unhired) time between the end of one contract term and the beginning of the next. No permanent job, no benefits. I did this for about 5 years in DC.