Portable Benefits
The employee benefits one can earn in a workplace can come in great packages that include retirement funds, healthcare, daycare and even stock options. Unfortunately, however, most benefit packages restrict a worker to the same place in order to keep them. Women, particularly working mothers, are more likely to change jobs, and do so more frequently, than do men, whether fathers or not. And when they do, like almost all other workers, they find that they are penalized for it. Frequently, job-switching leads to the loss of some benefits entirely, and to the often sizeable reduction of others. Our nation's employee-benefit system is designed this way. Why should it remain so?
Why can't we have portable health and retirement benefits, so that people are not penalized when they switch jobs?
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