Your organization, located in Manitoba, will be enhancing the group benefits plan offered to employees in two months by adding accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) coverage and vision care coverage. The organization will pay 50% of the cost of the AD&D premiums and 50% of the cost of the vision care premiums, with the employees paying the other 50% of each premium. The Manager of Finance, Laura Bruce, has requested that you, as the Payroll Supervisor, prepare a communication for the employees, explaining how these new benefits will impact their net pay.

Prepare your response (200 350 words) using your name, correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. You will be penalized if you are excessively over or under the suggested word count. Your response must be stated in your own words and should be based on the course material, your experiences, knowledge gained through the course and at least one external government resource.

Any responses taken directly from the external government resource or course material will not be accepted. Information referenced from the government resource(s) and the course material must be cited. For example:

if you are referencing the Canada Revenue Agencys Employers' Guide - Payroll

Deductions and Remittances T4001, state the URL where the information can be found, https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/forms-publications/publications/t4001.html and the page number, if applicable

if you are referencing the course material, state the course name, chapter and page number where the information can be found (for example, PF1, 1-1)

This written assignment is worth 7.5% of your final mark. This assignment must be completed and submitted to your instructor by 11:59 a.m. (Central Time) on the due date.

It is recommended that you prepare your response using MS Word or a similar word processing software and then copy and paste your work into the Your Response field. The Save and Close button will save your work and allow you to make future edits. Once you are satisfied with your response, click the Submit button. No further edits can be made once your assignment is submitted.

Note: Late assignments will not be graded.