Webinar: What Employers Need to Know about Handling Benefits when Employees Are on Leave (Part 2) - Bim Group

Webinar: What Employers Need to Know about Handling Benefits when Employees Are on Leave (Part 2)

Tuesday, July 9, 2019
2:00 p.m. ET / 11:00 a.m. PT

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This webinar is Part Two of our two-part series and will cover how an employer should handle health benefits when employees are on leave.

We will:

  • Briefly describe the laws and regulations that govern leave administration, including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA), and state law considerations including workers’ compensation
  • Discuss best practices for payment of premiums when an employee is on paid leave, unpaid FMLA leave, unpaid non-FMLA leave, or receiving workers’ compensation, short-term
  • disability payments, or long-term disability payments
  • Discuss how an employer should approach premium payment during leave when the employer doesn’t have a policy regarding premium payment or hasn’t communicated its premium payment policy to an employee who is already on leave
  • Describe how an employer counts an employee’s hours under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) when an employee is on leave, including whether hours are counted differently depending on the type of leave or depending on the employee’s status as full-time or variable hour
  • Provide practical tips for properly administering benefits during leave

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This intermediate level webinar will help employers understand how to administer benefits when an employee is on leave.

Register today while seating is still available.

NOTE: If you would like to view the webinar but are not able to attend, we encourage you to still register as you normally would. All registrants will receive a replay and copy of the presentation afterwards. 

If you are a Bim Group client and missed the client specific invitation, please email info@bimgroup.us with the CLIENT NAME in the subject line to have the preferred employer code emailed to you.

 


PRESENTER

Chelsea Deppert is an associate in the Atlanta office of Fisher Phillips. She provides practical guidance to employers on the technical aspects of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and other state and federal laws impacting the design, implementation and ongoing compliance of employee benefit plans and programs. She advises clients with respect to all aspects of employee benefits, including retirement plans, health and other welfare benefit plans.

 

This series is brought to you by your Partner Firm of United Benefit Advisors — the nation’s leading independent employee benefits advisory organization with more than 200 Partner offices in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

 

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