PowerPoint Presentation by Charlie CookThe University of West Alabama PowerPoint Presentation by Charlie Cook The University of West Alabama CHAPTER 14 Managing Employee Benefits CHAPTER
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PowerPoint Presentation by Charlie Cook
The University of West Alabama
CHAPTER 14
Managing Employee Benefits
CHAPTER 14
Managing Employee Benefits
S E C T I O N 4 Compensating Human Resources
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Chapter Objectives
■ Define a benefit and identify four strategic benefits considerations.
■ Summarize why benefits management and communications efforts
are important.
■ Distinguish between mandated and voluntary benefits and list three
examples of each.
■ Explain the importance of managing the costs of health benefits
and identify some methods of doing so.
■ Discuss the shift of retirement plans from defined-benefit to
defined-contribution and cash balance programs.
■ Describe the growth of financial, family-oriented, and time-off
After you have read this chapter, you should be able to:
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Provided Benefits
Employer-Absorb social costs for health
care and retirement
Influence employee decisions about employers
Are increasingly seen as entitlements
Average over 40% of total payroll costs
Benefits and HR Strategy
An indirect reward given to an employee or group of employees for organizational membership
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FIGURE 14-2
Strategic
Benefits
Considerations
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Benefits
Management
Components
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Benefits Design
How much total compensation?
What part of total compensation should benefits
comprise?
What expense levels are acceptable for each benefit?
Which employees should get which benefits?
What are we getting in return for the benefit?
How will offering benefits affect turnover, recruiting, and retention of employees?
How flexible should the benefits package be?
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HR and Benefits Administration
Benefits Administration Issues
Benefits Measurement (Return vs Costs)
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• Benefits as a percentage of payroll (pattern over a
multi-year period)
• Benefits expenditures per full-time equivalent (FTE)
employee
• Benefits costs by employee group (full-time vs
part-time, union vs nonunion, office, management,
professional, technical, etc.)
• Benefits administration costs (including staff time
multiplied by the staff pay and benefits costs per hour)
• Health-care benefits costs per participating employee
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Source: Based on data summarized from the U.S Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor statistics, National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits
in Private Industry in the United States, 2006; and Employee Benefits Study, 2006 ed (Washington, D.C.: U.S Chamber of Commerce, 2007).
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Severance Pay
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Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA)
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(COBRA) Provisions
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Health-Care Legislation
Act (HIPAA) of 1996
Allows employees to switch their health insurance
plan from one company to another, regardless of existing health conditions
pre- Requires employers to provide privacy notices to
employees and to not disclose of health information without authorization
Benefits plans that allow employees to contribute tax dollars to fund certain additional benefits
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Provides old age, survivor’s, disability,
and retirement benefits
Federal payroll tax (7.65%) on both
the employer and the employee
Medicare taxes are 2.9%
Benefit payments are based on
an employee’s lifetime earnings
Administered by the Social
Security Administration
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Source: U.S Bureau of Labor Statistics, www.bls.gov.
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FIGURE 14-12
Worker
Participation in
Pension Plans
Trang 24Pension Plan Concepts
Pension Plan Formats
Pension Rights
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Individual Retirement Options
Individual Retirement Options
Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
401(k) and Roth IRA
403(b)
Keogh
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Employee Retirement Security
in 1984)
Qualified Domestic Relations Order (QDRO)
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Retirement Benefits and Legal Requirements
Older Worker Security
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Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Employers with 50 or more employees
Employees who have worked at least 12 months and 1,250 hours in the previous year
Eligible employees can take up to a total of 12 weeks
of unpaid leave in a 12-month period to attend to a
family or serious medical condition
Employees must exhaust all other forms of leave
Employees have rights to continued health benefits and to return to their job
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Elder-Care Benefits
Trang 32Benefits for Domestic Partners
Unmarried employees who are living with individuals
of the opposite sex
Gay and lesbian employees who have partners
equivalent.
share responsibility for their common
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Time-Off and Other Benefits
Holiday Pay
Vacation Pay
Leaves of Absence
Miscellaneous Benefits
Off (PTO) Plans
Paid-Time-Time-Off and Other Benefits
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