Low labor costs combined with an abundant skilled workforce gives the Greater Rochester, NY Region a location advantage over competing U.S. metro areas.
Greater Rochester, NY Region has a number of businesses that have been nationally recognized for outstanding human resource and organizational development initiatives. Evidence of this fact can be found in Fortune Magazine's "2008 Top 100 Companies to Work for", which include Rochester-based companies Wegmans Food Market - 3, Paychex - 51, and Nixon Peabody - 66. Additionally, Dixon Schwabl was ranked the "2008 #1 Best Small Company to Work for in America" by Great Place to Work Institute.
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Payroll Information
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Unemployment Insurance |
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Unemployment insurance rate (average for existing employers, 2007) |
3.5% |
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Unemployment insurance rate (for new employers, 2007) |
4.0% |
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Unemployment insurance taxable base (2007) |
$8,500 |
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Unemployment insurance maximum weekly benefit |
$405 |
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Workers' Compensation |
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Maximum weekly benefit (2007) |
$400 |
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Rate for Clericals (Code 8810) |
$0.40 |
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Waiting period (days) |
7 |
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Automatic cost of living increase for total disability? |
No |
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Employee allowed to choose any physician? |
Yes |
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Physician must be chosen from list pre-approved by employers |
State list approved by the Workers' Compensation Board |
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Mental stress generally allowed as a compensable injury as a result of cumulative trauma |
Yes |
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Carpal tunnel generally allowed as a compensable injury as a result of cumulative trauma? |
Yes |
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Labor Legislation |
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Employment at will? |
Yes |
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If yes, significant restrictions (from employers standpoint) |
No |
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Restrictions on employee drug testing (2007) |
No |
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Telephone monitoring restrictions for regulation of productivity (or customer service) |
Yes, one party consent |
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Plant Closing Law stricter than Federal? |
No |
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ADA legislation stricter than Federal? |
Yes |
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Ban on hiring replacement workers during a strike? |
No
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Striking workers entitled to unemployment insurance? |
Yes, after 49 days |
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Relatively difficult for an employer to contest and win an unemployment insurance claim? |
No |
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Right to Work law in effect? |
No |
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EEO hiring standards more restrictive than Federal? |
No |
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Sexual harassment laws more restrictive than Federal |
No |
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Mandated parental leave legislation more generous than Federal? |
No |