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Broad view of employee benefits - ✔✔Any form of compensation other than direct
wages paid to employees
Narrow view of employee benefits - ✔✔Any form of compensation other than direct
wages that results from the employment relationship that is not underwritten or paid
by the government
Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, workers compensation - ✔✔A
legally mandated benefit paid by the employer that is excluded in the narrow view
Inland Steel - ✔✔A 1948 NLRB legal case that stipulated the duty to bargain in good
faith over wages; also included insurance and fringe benefits such as pension
W.W. Cross & Co. v. National Labor Relations Board - ✔✔A NLRB case that ruled that
'wages' in good faith bargaining include health and accident plans
Taft-Hartley Act - ✔✔An alternative name for the Labor Management Relations Act
Labor Management Relations Act - ✔✔This act set the framework for good-faith
collective bargaining over wages, hours, working conditions, terms of employment, and
benefits
Categories of persons covered by employee benefit plans - ✔✔A stipulation of
categories of individuals that will be covered in a benefit plan. Categories can be based
on employment status and dependent status.
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,Non-contributory benefit plans - ✔✔A benefit funding option where the employer pays
all the cost
Contributory benefit plans - ✔✔A benefit funding approach where the employer and
employees share the cost
Functional approach - ✔✔A systematic method of analysis of an employer's benefit
program that analyzes the program's ability to meet participants' needs, manage loss
exposures, and fit compensation and cost parameters
Total compensation philosophy - ✔✔A program that includes all types of employer-
offered compensation, long-term incentives, and employee benefits
Compensation/service-oriented philosophy - ✔✔A benefit philosophy that ties salary
or pay levels of employees to their tenure
Benefits/needs-oriented approach - ✔✔A benefit philosophy where the employer
focuses on the needs of the participants
Serious loss exposures - ✔✔Disability, death, and property damage insurance can all be
provided to employees to prevent what?
Replacement ratio - ✔✔The formula used to determine the level of retirement or
disability pay an employee may receive expressed as a percentage
Protection-orientated benefits - ✔✔Benefits that are provided to protect employees and
dependents against financial loss including life insurance and disability income have
this type of orientation
Accumulation-oriented benefits - ✔✔What type of orientation do pension plans, profit-
sharing plans, and other savings-type plans that reward employees for length of service
have?
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, Risk - ✔✔Uncertainty of the actual number and value of claims a benefits plan will
incur
Peril - ✔✔The cause of a loss, such as a fire or car accident
Hazard - ✔✔A condition or action that increases the probability that a peril will occur
Physical hazard - ✔✔Behavior such as failure to replace the machine guards on
manufacturing equipment is this type of hazard
Moral hazard - ✔✔A person who shops multiple doctors to get more opioids prescribed
is this type of hazard
Morale hazard - ✔✔The act of not flossing one's teeth regularly after getting dental
insurance is this type of hazard
Pure risks - ✔✔The type of risk with only 2 alternatives: financial loss or no financial
loss
Speculative risks - ✔✔The type of risk that can have 3 outcomes: loss, no loss, or gain
Avoidance - ✔✔A risk handling technique where the risk is not assumed
Control - ✔✔A risk handling technique that involves an action or mechanism to reduce
the probability or severity of a loss
Retention - ✔✔A risk handling technique where risk is assumed and paid for by the
person suffering the loss
Transfer - ✔✔A risk handling technique where one shifts the potential for financial
harm to another party
Insurance - ✔✔A risk handling technique where the potential for financial loss is shifted
to an insurer
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