Exam 15: Pay and Benefits Outside the United States

Claudia works for a pharmaceutical company in Germany as a blue-collar worker.She used to opt out of the state insurance plan and purchased a private insurance.Due to increasing health insurance premiums this year,she decided to get the state insurance plan.Which of the following is true regarding her state health insurance?

In Canada,the amount of vacation pay is equal to what percentage of the employee's pay for the preceding year per week of vacation?

In Germany,an employee can request up to how many year(s)of child-rearing leave?

Brazil's workforce has over how many people?

________ has by far the strongest economy out of all the countries in South America.

The country with the lowest GDP per capita reviewed in the chapter is ________.

Canada can best be defined as which of the following?

The average hourly cost to pay a manufacturing worker in the United States in 2011 was how much?

The origins of the common law governing individual employment contracts in Canada were based on the laws of which country?

Nora has been working at a manufacturing plant in Mexico for the last 18 months.Which of the following is NOT true regarding her paid time off benefits?

In which country are hourly compensation costs the lowest?

In China,per capita expenditure on health was what amount at the international dollar rate in 2010?

The United States,Canada,and Mexico are part of a trade bloc better known as ________.

Canada has two state-run pension plans: one for ________ provincial residents only and one for the rest of Canada.

Compare health benefits and paid time off benefits in India and People's Republic of China.

Chris has been working in Vancouver,Canada at an accounting firm for the last 10 years.Which of the following should not be true regarding his paid time off benefits?

Discuss the employment context in the European Union.

Which of the following country has the strongest economy in South America?

Which of the following is NOT one of the top three largest economies in Asia as of 2010?

Former under-developed countries of the world are experiencing which of these conditions,thus eliciting greater interconnections with U.S.employers?