Your employees use their health and welfare benefits on an almost daily basis, making them a highly-visible and important component of employee compensation. At the same time, an employee
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- Butzel Long attorney Thomas L. Shaevsky appointed Chair, Employee Benefits Committee, Oakland County Bar Association
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- Michigan Increases The Minimum Wage
- Employee Benefits - New Rollover Option Available to Health Flexible Spending Account Plans
- Employee Benefits - Health Care Reform Play-or-Pay Requirements Partially Delayed, Scaled Back, and Clarified Under New Final Regulations
- Employee Benefits - IRS Fee Payable for Many Employer-Sponsored Health Plans by July 31, 2013
- Employee Benefits - Employer “Pay or Play” Mandate under Health Care Reform Delayed until 2015
- Employee Benefits - U.S. Department of Labor Issues Model Notices Due to Health Care Reform
- Employee Benefits - Employers Given More Time to Issue Notices Concerning Health Insurance Exchanges
- Client Alert - Employee Benefits - New California Laws Affect Employer-Sponsored Group Health Plans
- Automation Alley Newsletter - IRS Announces New Employee Benefits Limits for 2012
- Automation Alley Newsletter - New State Tax on Health Care Claims Affects Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
- Client Alert - Employee Benefits - New State Tax on Health Care Claims Affects Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
- Client Alert - Labor and Employment - State-by-State Wage and Hour Law Summary
- E-news: Employee Benefits
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- Automation Alley Newsletter - July 2010
- E-news: Employee Benefits - 6/23/2010
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- E-news: Employee Benefits - March 20, 2009
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- E-news: Employee Benefits - February 13, 2009
- E-news: Employee Benefits Law - January 2, 2008
- Advised manufacturing clients on ability to modify or terminate retiree health care benefits for union and non-union employees
- Designed health risk assessment program that complies with ERISA, HIPAA, ADA, and GINA , integrated with employers wellness programs and incentives and determined if eligibility to participate in health plan could be contingent on completing HRA
- Assist clients in assessing potential legal risks of conditioning eligibility to participate in group health plan on completion of a health risk assessment, where all results are confidential and not collected by or provided to the employer
- Represented health plans in coordination-of-benefits lawsuits involving automobile no-fault insurance carriers
- Prepared HIPAA Privacy and Security policies and procedures for client group health plans, including administrative forms, business associate agreements and plans sponsor certifications; updated documents and procedures to comply with HITECH
- Negotiated and prepared documents in asset purchase by consumer packaged goods company for transition of health benefits; analyzed avoidance of multiemployer withdrawal liability and new retirement programs for union and non-union employees
- Advised on large multistate welfare plan’s contracts for administering and/or insuring medical, prescription drug, life, long-term disability, short-term disability, flexible spending accounts, and employee assistance program
- Health and Welfare Plan restructured for major insurance company
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- Assisted with termination, assignment and transition of employee benefits programs in stock sale of information technology-based subsidiary of public company, including assigning certain plans to parent and transitioning other programs to buyer.
- Restructured 16 retiree health care programs for major manufacturing company into five consolidated programs with reduced benefits and assisted with retiree communication and acceptance program