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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Contract/Temporary Work
Hi ladies,
I wanted to reach out to see if anyone has experience with contract or temporary work. I am losing my job at the end of the month and was looking into doing some temporary work. I am not working with a temp agency, but saw a few companies looking for temporary employees.
I am so new to this. Do companies have a set duration of your job? Do companies offer benefits? Are salaries typically comparable to their full-time employees? Are you able to collect unemployment with a temporary job?
Any insight is appreciated.
Re: Contract/Temporary Work
These are just general answers based on my experience - the answers may or may not be true depending on the industry, specific situation, etc. The only way to know for sure, would be to inquire with the company.
Do companies have a set duration of your job? It would be more of a general estimate. They might say they need you for 3 months, and it would end up being 6, or vice versa.
Do companies offer benefits? You would most likely be an hourly, non-benefited employee. You would likely not even be employed by the company which you're working for, but rather for a 3rd party vendor or as an independent contractor.
Are salaries typically comparable to their full-time employees? You would receive an hourly rate. Depending on the industry, the hourly rate sometimes trends to be higher than what it would annualize as a salaried/benefited employee.
Are you able to collect unemployment with a temporary job? Not while you are working, but once the assignment is done, I can't imagaine you would be denied u/e benefits if you applied.
Sorry to hear about your job, good luck!
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
I'll ditto what the others posted, but I do believe that you can collect unemployment still AS LONG AS the salary you are making at your temp job does not exceed your unemployment. However, the amount you make will be deducted from what you get from unemployment.
So, if unemployment entitles you to $800 per 2-week pay period, and you make $500 at the temp job, you will receive $300 from unemployment.
The only thing you would want to think about, though, is that you get 26 weeks (as long as there are no extensions). If you are making $500 per pay on your temp job (and aren't hard pressed financially to collect that other $300), you may just want to suspend your unemployment during the weeks you collect. That way, your 26 weeks end date gets extended out.
Please call the unemployment dept and ask this question and get clarification, because I am not 100% sure on this. Also ask if you take a temp job while on unemployment, what happens when that contract ends - are you covered by a new unemployment claim or not.
Good luck, and I'm sorry about the upcoming changes!
My three sons!
My three sons!
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