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Benefit Guidelines for Same-Gender Couples: How to Draft a Clear Policy
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SUMMARY
Same-gender couples operate under varying sets of benefits rules across the country. How to properly insure and compensate these unique families can be very difficult for employers to figure out. How can you ensure your clients are properly educated on the ins and outs of benefits rights for domestic partners? Join us for this 60-minute webinar where you and your colleagues will discover:
- Legal differences between marriage, domestic partnerships and civil unions
- Family leave entitlements for employees in domestic partnerships
- Employer obligations within jurisdictions recognizing domestic partners
- Recent legislation affecting benefits rights for domestic partnerships & civil unions
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
This 60 minute webinar will provide you with the necessary skills and know how to advise clients on offering benefits to non-traditional families.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Employer & Employee Requirements Regarding Domestic Partners
- Burden of proof requirements on employees in civil unions
- Rules & Regulations regarding COBRA & taxation issues
- Applicable protections to domestic partners under FMLA
- Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits, and Life Insurance Benefit Issues
- ERISA's interpretation regarding LGBT partnerships
- Best practices when offering benefits to domestic partners
- Survivor benefit & partner rights under current U.S. law
- Benefits Rights for Non-Traditional Couples: Recent and Upcoming Legal Changes
- Status of the Defense of Marriage Act Under the Obama Administration
- Recent changes of the Pension Protection Act and its Implications
- Federal proposals affecting same-gender couples right to benefits
- Question & Answer Session - Have Your Domestic Partnership Benefit Plan Questions Answered!
- Employer & Employee Requirements Regarding Domestic Partners
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SPEAKER
Todd A. Solomon is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm's Chicago office. Todd focuses his practice primarily on designing, amending, and administering pension plans, profit sharing plans, 401(k) plans, employee stock ownership plans, 403(b) plans, and nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements. He also counsels privately and publicly-held corporations and tax-exempt entities regarding fiduciary issues under ERISA, employee benefits issues involved in corporate transactions, executive compensation matters, and the implementation of benefit programs for domestic partners of employees.
- He is co-chair of the Firm's Plan Fiduciary/Investment Management Affinity Group, and a portion of his practice consists of advising clients on fiduciary and plan investment matters. Todd has experience counseling plan fiduciaries with respect to investment policies, alternative investments (e.g., hedge funds, limited partnerships, real estate), prohibited transaction issues, investment management agreements and payment of expenses from plan assets.
- Todd is the author of the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Editions of Domestic Partner Benefits - An Employer's Guide, which were published by Thompson Publishing Group, and is a frequent speaker on employee benefits issues resulting from domestic partnerships and same-sex marriages. Todd is a contributing editor for the Employer's Handbook: Complying With IRS Employee Benefits Rules, also published by Thomson Publishing Group.
- Todd is co-chair of the Firm's Pro Bono & Community Service Committee in the Chicago office and a member of the board of directors of AIDS Legal Council of Chicago. He received the 2008 McDermott Will & Emery award for Outstanding Achievement and Commitment to Pro Bono and Service to the Community. In June 2008, Todd was named a "Pro Bono Attorney of the Month" by Illinois Legal Aid Online. He is also a member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Diversity Committee of McDermott Will & Emery. As a member of the LGBT Committee, Todd has been involved with evaluating the Firm's domestic partner benefits policies and working with businesses in Chicago to form strategic alliances in order to advocate for LGBT rights in the workplace.
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CLE CREDITS
Continuing Legal Education CLE credit is available for an additional $65 per person in states where teleconferences are accredited
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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