The employee contribution to the 401K plans is not 100 vested. The employee contribution in the plan gives full guaranty in case of any gain or losses.
The employee contribution is a matter of the vesting need. The vesting needs are always common in 401 K plans. In this scheme you must earn your employee contribution over certain period of time. The employee contribution depends on the years of your service in the company. If your contribution equal to 50 percent under you're vesting schedule than you are permissible to get $50 for every $100 investment. The return on the investment is depends on the types of 401K plans. You must have to see the terms of the 401K plans so that you must know how much return you can get from your investment.
Normally the companies who decide to launch 401K plans for their employee have an opportunity to gets some flexibility in deciding the schedules. Once the plan is setup, the employee get 100 percent vested as they join the plan. Sometimes it gives 100 percent vested after the number of services.
As per the law, all employees get fully vested in the plan after six years of service and employer contribution after seven years of services. The term may differ depending on the plan period. In general for all 401K plan the employee contribution gets fully vested once their age limit crosses at 65 year or die or immobilize due to bad health or plan get canceled.
