Course Description
The Advanced Certificate in Employee Benefits Law Seminar is designed as a timely, thorough, and highly-enjoyable update that analyzes sophisticated, up-to-the-minute HR issues and developments.
The seminar explores the highly-complex benefits challenges you face on a daily basis, and provides techniques for managing and solving the problems, liabilities, and contradictions they can pose. With the intensified scrutiny by enforcement agencies, dramatic increases in benefits-related litigation, and the potential for severe liabilities for missteps, the information presented is as timely as it is critical.
Learning Objectives
- The seminar is designed to instruct participants in how to analyze, implement and evaluate the relationship between federal regulations and the needs of their organization
- Because participants will learn the latest in employee benefits they can better assess how their own corporate policies and procedures fall in line with the federal requirements and if those policies don't meet the requirements, what organizational change activities need to be met in response
Course Content
- Washington Update: What's New? Recent Guidance and Current Employee Benefit Projects
- Qualified Plans
- Identifying Plan Errors and Developing Solutions to the Errors
- IRS DOL Audits: How to Manage
- Plan Administrators: Enhancing Communication and Avoiding Pitfalls
- ERISA Litigation
- Health Care Reform Compliance Boot Camp
- Defined Contribution Healthcare in a Post-ACA World: Private Exchange Compliance Issues and Opportunities
- Innovative Health Care Delivery Models
- HIPAA Breach Compliance and Response: How to Avoid Singing the Blues
- What’s a Health Benefits Administrator to Do? How to Manage Audit Risks Under Federal Health and Welfare Mandates
- Wellness Programs and Disease Management: Overcoming Legal Compliance Hurdles
Faculty
The seminar is presented by charismatic and highly-experienced instructors, whose insight, wit, and energy assure you of a memorable and exceptionally valuable experience. Presenters include:
- John Hickman, Esq. of Alston &Bird
- H. Douglas Hinson, Esq. of Alston &Bird
- Thomas Schendt, Esq. and Emily Mao, Esq. of Alston &Bird
Class Hours
Day 1 and Day 2: 8:00am-4:00pm; Day 3: 8:00am-12:00pm.
Continuing Education Credits
This seminar has been approved for 16.75 (General) re-certification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute (HRCI), 16.75 PDC's toward SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP recertification through the Society for Human Resource Management, plus Continuing Legal Education in many states. You can also earn recertification credit hours for designations offered by: the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (CEBS) and WorldatWork.
How You Receive Your Certificate
The Advanced Certificate in Employee Benefits Law is awarded after a participant attends the full 2½ day conference. No examinations are given. These handsome certificates are mailed two to four weeks after the end of the conference.