Do temporary employees receive benefits?
Temporary employees are eligible to earn leave and are covered by Social Security and unemployment compensation, but do not receive the other fringe benefits provided to career civil service employees. Current law allows temporary employees to purchase health insurance after they have one year of temporary service, but the employee must pay the full cost with no Government contribution. Employees are not eligible for coverage under the Federal Government Life Insurance program or the Federal Employees Retirement System. WHAT IS A TERM APPOINTMENT? Under term employment, the employing agency hires the term appointee for work of a project or non-permanent nature and for a limited period of time, lasting for more than one year but not to exceed four years. Reasons for making a term appointment may include: • project work; • extraordinary workload; • scheduled abolishment of a position; • reorganization; • uncertainty of future funding; • contracting out of the function. How are term emplo
