Upcoming Webcasts

Health Care Reform is complex – and failing to get things right can result in significant penalties for employers. One of the most serious issues facing an employer is making sure that it offers a plan that meets the “affordability” requirement in order to avoid triggering a $3,000 annual penalty per full-time employee who receives a federal tax credit for Exchange coverage.

An employer can also fail to meet the shared responsibility requirement if the plan that is offered is not considered to be of “minimum value” with respect to covered benefits.

In other circumstances, such as failing to offer coverage to at least 95% of full-time employees, just one employee going to an Exchange and getting a subsidy can trigger a penalty applicable to all full-time employees (minus the first 30) – even those who are enrolled for healthcare.

This session will examine:

• how these penalties can be triggered
• how to mitigate the possibility of doing so
and
• the financial consequences of not getting it “right”

As an attendee of these events, you will receive information about some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs), which ADP’s health and benefits team has received related to Health Care Reform.

Health Care Reform is complex – and failing to get things right can result in significant penalties for employers. One of the most serious issues facing an employer is making sure that it offers a plan that meets the “affordability” requirement in order to avoid triggering a $3,000 annual penalty per full-time employee who receives a federal tax credit for Exchange coverage.

An employer can also fail to meet the shared responsibility requirement if the plan that is offered is not considered to be of “minimum value” with respect to covered benefits.

In other circumstances, such as failing to offer coverage to at least 95% of full-time employees, just one employee going to an Exchange and getting a subsidy can trigger a penalty applicable to all full-time employees (minus the first 30) – even those who are enrolled for healthcare.

This session will examine:

• how these penalties can be triggered
• how to mitigate the possibility of doing so
and
• the financial consequences of not getting it “right”

As an attendee of these events, you will receive information about some of the most frequently asked questions (FAQs), which ADP’s health and benefits team has received related to Health Care Reform.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as the PPACA, or the health reform law) poses unique and complex challenges to employers everywhere. Although the law is already three years old, its signature provisions—and most onerous requirements—take effect January 1, 2014, just months from now.

Employers everywhere are scrambling to understand and comply with the law’s complex rules. The issues and challenges for employers vary significantly depending on employer size and industry sector. But the law will impact all employers in some way: financially, in hiring and retention, and in the great many administrative challenges the law imposes.

We look forward to helping you understand the impact of health care reform on your business.

Under health care reform, voluntary benefits will play an increasingly important role in many employers’ benefits strategies. Many employers will shift toward providing only bare-bones core medical coverage and transferring more responsibility for additional coverage to the employee via voluntary benefits offerings. In this webinar, you'll learn how employers are reacting in different ways to changes under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and how voluntary benefits could help you react seamlessly to these changes. We'll outline key ingredients for a successful voluntary benefit program, commonly offered voluntary benefits, and ways that voluntary benefits can solve employers' and workers' headaches under health care reform.

This presentation focuses on what employers need to know now about the latest updates within PPACA. If you are wondering if this law is still in effect, impacts you, or changes the rules you have been following, this session is for you. With a basic foundation of the key elements of the bill and a look at what compliance regulations may impact your organization. We will focus on four key components, the employer shared responsibility, individual mandate, taxes and fines and lastly the exchanges. We will offer resources of where to find the most updated information available. As every employer has a different set of decisions to make, we aim to bring clarity around what questions are worth asking!

Launch your learning journey with a high energy start! This session will introduce the Institute for Human Resources (IHR) Benefits: Cost Containment, Audits and Legal Risks and the Institute for Human Resources (IHR) certification program. Find out about the workshops that will be available, and learn how the IHR certification process works. Throughout this conference you will gain practical ideas and concepts that you will be able to put into practice in your organization. You will be introduced to the Advisory Board, learn about the opportunity to become certified within the IHR and see who is speaking and their topics. You will be given guidance on how to chat online with colleagues and access the virtual exhibit hall. You will have the opportunity to ask questions as it relates to the overall program, prior to its commencement. You can access all of the archived sessions where we launched this Institute in May, 2011.

New U.S. regulations in the health privacy field present a number of compliance challenges for employer plans during 2013 and 2014. This session will summarize the basic rules under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), describe the new final regulations and their changes, and provide practical compliance assistance in areas of particular concern to employers. Among other topics, the session will cover: the changing status of business associates under HIPAA business associate agreements; the new standards for evaluating breaches of security, including risk assessment, notification, and reporting obligations; restrictions on the use of genetic information for health plan underwriting and related notice obligations; new participant rights; and enhancements to the HIPAA enforcement regime and civil penalties. Attendees will have an opportunity to raise questions about the new regulations during the session and will leave with a road map for addressing their HIPAA compliance gaps.

Healthcare reform is here to stay and it is contributing to an explosion in America’s part-time workforce. Effective January 1, 2014, employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent employees are required to provide health insurance for their workers or face fines. Many employers are planning to manage their employees to fewer than 30 hours per week, exempting them from the penalty. What are the options for part-time employees? They are required to have health insurance, and they have full-time lives and full-time pressures to provide for themselves and/or their families. Competition to recruit and keep the best part-time employees will increase. This session will cover who is affected by the mandate, how to understand employee status (part-time vs. full-time), and benefit options for your part-time employees.

In the Workplace Wellness Program Best Practices session we focus on global benchmarked workplace wellness programs as they are evaluated against the ten most important best practices. It addresses international trends that incorporate program design, strategy development, organizational change, program management and the evaluation of employee health, wellness and productivity outcomes. Based on real workplace wellness program case studies we address mission critical aspects that contribute to the success of any employee health promotion program. We share what thriving organizations do to develop, implement and manage their workplace health and wellness programs so that sustainable stakeholder value and triple bottom line results are created.

Workplace grief costs U.S. businesses billions of dollars a year in reduced productivity and increased errors and accidents, yet the word grief rarely shows up in reports. In The Hidden Annual Cost of Grief in America’s Workplace 2003 report, the keyword in the title of this report is the word "hidden." It is just that factor that has caused the problem to escalate to now unimaginable proportions and it is the essential reason that it is getting worse rather than better. In this presentation we will address the definition of grief, the grief/workplace connection, the cost of "presenteeism" to corporations and we will discover how managers and other employees can support coworkers who have experienced personal loss.