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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (23215)	2/20/2012 7:34:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Only if the benefit is in some sense properly due to the employee. What is perceived to be properly due to an employee is in large part a function of what is customary. What is customary may not be legally due, but that is the employees' expectation. If everyone else is getting a Ferrari, then employees expect a Ferrari and will feel put upon and gripe if they don't get one. That's just how it works. That's how salaries and benefits escalate. That's how morale slides. Wise employers understand this. If the employer doesn't provide the car or the gum because they are morally against it. It was included as a possibility, because of - Maybe I couldn't figure out your question because there was no question. <g>