Wake County Public School System
Cary, NC
see the full file on Wake County Public School Systemdocumented benefits (5)
| Works around classes | Bus drivers work a split school-day shift: up to four hours in the morning, a midday break, up to four hours in the afternoon, and the district states plainly there are no weekends or holidays. Routes are assigned close to the driver's home. Bus safety assistants work the identical split shift. Child nutrition staff have no nights or weekends and cafe assistants finish in the early afternoon. |
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| No experience needed | Bus driver: no diploma or GED is asked for at all. The whole entry bar is being 18, holding a valid NC driver's licence for at least two years, a good driving record and availability of at least 30 hours a week. Bus safety assistants need only to be 18 plus a background check. Child nutrition asks for 18+ with a high school diploma or equivalent; instructional assistants need a high school diploma or GED. |
| Paid training | The district pays for the CDL itself - a licence or permit is required but Wake pays the driver to get it - and provides full training on driving and on working with children. No repayment or service-commitment clause is stated anywhere on the page. Bus safety assistants get district-provided training on working with students. Cafe managers come up through a paid Manager Training Program. |
| Hours a week to qualify | Bus drivers and bus safety assistants must commit to at least 30 hours a week; the district frames this as the availability requirement for the role. Permanent full-time staff are the group automatically enrolled in the state pension. |
| Pension | Permanent full-time employees, including support staff, are automatically enrolled in the North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System (TSERS), a defined benefit plan. The employee contributes 6% of pretax pay and the district contributes more than 24%. Optional NC 401(k), 403(b) and 457 plans sit on top. |
the legal floor where they are
Set by law, not by Wake County Public School System. It applies to every employer in Cary, NC.
| IVF cycles the state covers | THERE IS NO FEDERAL MANDATE. No US law requires an employer health plan to cover IVF or any infertility treatment, so coverage comes either from the insurance mandate in the state where the plan is written or from the employer's own choice. And the state mandates reach less far than they look: they bind fully insured plans bought from a state-regulated carrier, while a self-funded employer plan is governed federally under ERISA and is preempted from state insurance regulation. KFF's 2025 employer survey puts 67% of covered workers in a self-funded plan, and 80% of those at firms of 200 or more — so at the size of employer this site mostly covers, the state mandate usually does not apply, and any fertility benefit is a genuine company choice rather than a restatement of law. That is precisely why it belongs on a benefits page here. Perks has not yet read this employer's own state insurance mandate from an official source; the states that have been read carry their own entry. (No federal statute requires an employer health plan to cover infertility treatment or IVF. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preempts state insurance regulation as applied to self-funded employer plans, which is why a state mandate does not reach them.) |
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| Adoption leave the law gives | 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period on the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. There is no federal paid adoption leave. (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(B) and 2612(c); eligibility at 29 U.S.C. 2611(2) and (4). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code.) |
| Pay when you are ill | No federal law requires any paid sick leave. The FLSA does not require payment for time not worked, and the FMLA gives 12 workweeks of UNPAID job-protected leave in any 12-month period for a serious health condition, and only for employees who meet the FMLA eligibility test. Any paid sick time comes from a state or city law, or from the employer's own choice. (Fair Labor Standards Act, per the Department of Labor's statement on payment for time not worked; Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. 2612(a)(1)(D) and 2612(c). Quoted from the 2023 edition of the US Code on govinfo.gov.) |
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