Employees with families will pay $275 a month, still an increase of $100, or 57 percent, from this year.

Employees pay for their own health benefits at a group rate.

A. It used to be that employees might pay 5 percent of their health care costs.

And at some companies, employees are paying a growing share of the costs.

The employees had paid for the food and drink, he said.

But employees who go outside the network often pay more than 30 percent of their bills.

There is no question that employees are already paying more.

At present, the most senior employees pay nothing to the retirement system.

Employees pay themselves back with interest, at rates often lower than on other loans.

He said the main complaint was that single employees pay the same $15 a week as those with large families.