The classes Name and Date are separate classes used as properties in the Employee class.

$-$ Class Employee is the superclass of the classes SalariedEmployee and HourlyEmployee. The superclass has the attributes name and date of hire and methods to set and get these attributes. It also has $2$ methods: equals$()$ which check if the objects are same and toString$()$ which convert the properties to a printable string. Also the method read$()$ which used as an input method.