Is This Just?

[teeboy]

An employer makes a job offer which does not include a life insurance benefit. The offeree accepts the offer. Later, the employer mails a notice to the employee’s address notifying him that if he doesn’t reply by a certain date, money will be withheld from his paycheck and go torward the payment of life insurance premiums on a monthly basis.

This, to me, is equivalent to delivering property to an individual who never agreed to the property to begin with and then expecting the individual to pay for the property if the property isn’t returned. Returning the property, of course, is a burden on the recipient.

 

[agnes_therese]

An employer makes a job offer which does not include a life insurance benefit. The offeree accepts the offer. Later, the employer mails a notice to the employee’s address notifying him that if he doesn’t reply by a certain date, money will be withheld from his paycheck and go torward the payment of life insurance premiums on a monthly basis.

This, to me, is equivalent to delivering property to an individual who never agreed to the property to begin with and then expecting the individual to pay for the property if the property isn’t returned. Returning the property, of course, is a burden on the recipient.

No, it’s not equivalent. The employee has the opportunity to refuse the life insurance. Are they making it unusually difficult to respond, thereby making it a “burden”?

 

[captainrick]

It’s annoying - could have been handled in a better way by the employer. At least the burden of notification is relatively minimal… But aggravating!