There are 4 types of non-cash benefits that employers in the USA can choose whether or not to provide to their employees. These are all considered to be in-kind benefits administered to the eligible employees through the companies HR Department. These benefits are known as: unemployment, workers' compensation, WARN and OSHA. While these are not per se cash or in-kind compensation benefits for employees, they constitute programs which may or may not be required to be provided and are expenditures of the enterprise's resources to administer. Firms will differ internally, but many if not most companies with an organized Human Resources department will require that the HR professionals monitor the administration of these non-compensation benefits as well as those which are clearly compensatory in nature.

Discussion Forum Prompt:

Consider the role of the HR professional in the US and respond to this query: Is the primary responsibility of the HR professional owed to the employee, to the employer, or to both?

This is for HR Law in the United States