Gallagher Compliance Consultants field thousands of questions a year surrounding leaves of absence, and many are questions you have probably asked yourself. When should coverage end? How do you handle annual enrollment and election events? What happens when the employee returns to work? What if they don’t return to work? In Compliance Field Notes – Leaves of Absence, we work through numerous real-world scenarios faced by employers, identify the issues under FMLA, ADA, USERRA, ACA, HIPAA, and more, and provide practical solutions to ease the administrative burden of compliance and reduce the risk to your organization. In this webinar, you will:
- Learn about leave laws and benefits eligibility
- Examine ACA and COBRA implications
- Review election and payment obligations
- Study effect of other federal benefit laws on leaves
Meet the Presenters
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Janet Downs
is Division Senior Vice President, Compliance Counsel for the Benefits & Human Resources Consulting division of Gallagher.
As a member of the national compliance team, Janet utilizes over two decades of experience in employee benefits to find practical solutions to complex issues confronting employers and their health and welfare plans. Prior to joining Gallagher in 2014, Janet worked for Fortune 100 companies in the energy and manufacturing sectors assisting with benefit plan compliance. Her background of working as a plan sponsor, plan administrator, and counsel provides her with multi-faceted experience to assist employers in finding commonsense solutions to comply with the myriad of benefit plan regulations.
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Leah Belknap Carter
is Division Assistant Vice President, Compliance Counsel, for the Benefits & Human Resources Consulting division of Gallagher. Prior to joining Gallagher, Leah worked for the State of Iowa Judicial Branch with family recovery courts and for both private employers and public entities assisting with benefit plan compliance. She draws on her unique practice combination both as a leader in state regulatory advocacy and in her handling of complex client scenarios to provide her legal expertise to the Gallagher national compliance team.
SHRM certification has approved this webinar for 1 PDC toward SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP recertification. A program code will be provided at the end of the webinar.