Consider again the law that would require employers to provide the same package of nonwage benefits offered to full-time employees to part-time employees on a prorated basis. (For employees working 25 percent of the normal workweek, employers would pay for 25 percent of the benefit package offered to full-time employees, and so on.) Also, assume most part-time workers do not currently receive benefits. Holding output and capital constant, how would firms adjust the employment/hours mix of parttime workers?

On january 15, the end of the first biweekly pay period of the year, north company’s payroll register showed that its employees earned $32,000 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees’ salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $3,000 of federal income taxes, $772 of medical insurance deductions, and $260 of union dues. no employee earned > $7,000 in this first period. prepare the journal entry to record north company’s january 15 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.