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Description: During times of wide-reaching emergencies – whether natural disasters, financial downturns, or, as we currently face – pandemics – employers have a lot of questions about what their obligations are to their employees. These wide-ranging and often overlapping issues range from employee safety, paid leave, and workplace accommodations, to health insurance coverage, privacy, and emergency funds available through retirement plans.
In this webcast, we’ll highlight the evolving concerns that most employers are trying to navigate right now. A panel of four highly-experienced practitioners will spend 90 minutes addressing the most critical employee benefits (retirement and health and welfare) as well as employment and labor law issues. If you represent a business – whether as in-house or outside counsel, this is a program not to be missed.
What You Will Learn
This webcast provides a high-level, big picture discussion of both employee benefits and employment and labor issues at the forefront today. It will highlight the most recent federal laws and regulations in play (including the Families First Coronavirus Response Act), as well as what is still to come. The faculty will also address the intertwined benefit and labor/employment laws, preemption issues raised by the Supremacy and Interstate Commerce Clauses, as well as potentially available remedies.
Specific topics include:
What health plans are required to cover under new legislation: COVID testing, what exactly is required to be covered, whether plans can limit to in-network providers
What health plans are covering: increased telemedicine, providing benefits for all employees (including non-participants)
Privacy: HIPAA updates on COVID guidance, how HIPAA interacts with EEOC guidance; international issues; digital/online privacy and security
Changes to HSA/FSA/HRA rules, including what can be paid before the deductible related to COVID
New 401(k) hardship distribution rules; waiver of 10% excise tax
Special new plan loan provisions
Accessing retirement money: expand in-service and other distribution options; hardship (non-COVID-19) withdrawals
409A/issues with deferred compensation plans in light of reduced executive
Discrimination: Title VII, Civil Rights Act, and age
Safety: OSHA; environmental
Wage and hours laws
ADA access and discrimination
Termination, leave, furloughs, and layoffs: WARN, expanded FMLA, emergency paid sick leave, changes to short-term disability to account for quarantine leave, health plan issues to consider
Testing: GINA, state DNA, and biometric laws
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and
Immigration
Labor laws: NLRA, RLA, state and local, right to work issues
 | | Practice Areas: | | Employee Benefits & Compensation | | | Online Media Type: | | Audio | | | Production Date: | | 04/02/2020 1:00 PM EDT | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 1 Hours, 30 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | Live | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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