Many employers have as part of their employment agreements a probationary period for all new hires for the first three months of employment. Often employee benefits and other employment perks like accruing vacation time or being entitled to participate in a bonus program don’t crystallize until after this probationary period ends.
The reason most employers do this is because they believe that they can fire their employees without cause and without severance if they feel the employee is just not a good fit, or any other reason, if it is done within the probationary period. Since employers view this time as a chance to test out the employment relationship without any obligations upon termination, they also hold off on setting up the employee’s benefits, etc. until they know the employment relationship will move on past the initial probationary period.
The problem with this view of the employer relationship is that … Continue reading