Benefits

Employers offer benefits to employees in order to provide additional security, which improves the company's ability to retain workers. Typical categories of benefits include:

• Paid Leave: includes vacation days, sick time, and holiday pay.

• Retirement Benefits: pension plans, 401k plans, 403b and other contribution plans.

• Premium Pay: payment that is supplementary to normal wages that are owed when the employee works on a holiday, weekend, or is otherwise moved to a temporary shift.

• Insurance: term life insurance, health insurance, disability, and dental insurance.

• Training: access to both in-house classroom studies as well as reimbursement for college tuition expenses.

The human resources department is usually responsible for maintaining and administering a company's benefits programs.

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