*Original Work Only*

200 words each question with one reference

(1) What does ERISA regulate? What does it require of employers? What employers does ERISA regulate? How have you been personally affected by ERISA?

(2) Summarize three main components of legally required benefits.

(3) Summarize the five fundamental objectives of employee benefits program design.

(4) Provide an example of a well-designed communication plan that effectively increased employee participation in a retirement plan. What made the communication plan effective?

(5) List the four categories of flexible work schedules.

(6) Describe at least three reactions unions have about the use of contingent work and flexible work schedule arrangements.

(7) Explain the three approaches available to companies for setting expatriate employees' base pay.

(8) Describe the issue of repatriation.