Worker's Compensation - ✅✅ State programs that provide benefits to workers
who suffer work-related injuries or illnesses, or to their survivors.
Affordable Care Act - ✅✅ Healthcare reform law passed in 2010 that includes
incentives and penalties for employers providing health insurance as a benefit.
Optional Benefits - ✅✅ -Vacation
-Holidays
-Sick Leave
-Personal Days
-Floating Holidays
-Jury Duty
-Funerals
-Military Duty
-Time Off to Vote
Paid Time Off: Most flexible approach
Employer pools personal days, sick days, and vacation days for employees to use
as the need arises
Contributory Plan - ✅✅ Retirement plan funded by contributions from the
employer and employee.
, Noncontributory Plan - ✅✅ Retirement plan funded entirely by contributions
from the employer.
Selecting Employee Benefits - ✅✅ -The Organization's Objectives
-Employee's Expectations and Values
-Benefits' Costs
Labor Relations - ✅✅ Field that emphasizes skills that managers and union
leaders can use to minimize costly forms of conflict (strikes) and seek win-win
solutions to disagreements.
Three Labor Relations management activities - ✅✅ 1) Labor Relations Strategy-
work with unions or develop non-union operations
2) Negotiating Contracts- Pay structure, job security, work rules, workplace safety,
etc.
3) Administering Contracts- day to day activities in which union members and
organization's managers may have disagreements
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) - ✅✅ Federal law that supports collective
bargaining and sets out the rights of employees to form unions.
Right-to-Work Laws and States - ✅✅ State laws that make union shops,
maintenance of membership, and agency shops illegal.
States:
Idaho Iowa Georgia
Nevada Oklahoma South Carolina
Arizona Texas North Carolina
Utah Arkansas Virginia