Title: Describe employer obligations to employees.
Course: Agricultural Business Operations II (18201-36) > Section: Managing Human Resources in an Agribusiness

Description should include

- mandatory benefits, based on the size and/or type of business
  - Social security
  - Medicare
  - unemployment insurance
  - workers’ compensation
- fringe benefits and incentives

  - paid vacation
  - sick leave
  - retirement plans
  - medical insurance plans.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is the definition of benefit? What are some examples?
- How do these benefits vary with the size of a business?
- How is the amount of these obligations measured out to each employee?
- What is workers’ compensation, and how can it differ among businesses?
- Who administers the Social Security and Medicare programs?