[Bellevue] HUB University: 2020 Employee Benefits Legal Update

Employers and health care plan sponsors could be on a compliance hotplate if they fail to follow changes to federal and state regulations. Ongoing legislative activity ensures you will have plenty to add to your already heaping plate of health benefits and employment law requirements.

Join us to receive the latest employee benefits compliance updates. Learn what’s happening (right now), what’s changing, and what’s expected for 2020.

WHAT’S HAPPENING?

IRS enforcement – Employer’s liability risks are heating up. The IRS is not playing when it comes to its unprecedented enforcement of the Affordable Care Act’s “Pay or Play” mandate. Additionally, double-digit increases in FMLA and ADA lawsuits reveal a troubling trend in which employers fail to follow defined processes.

• Unprecedented barrage of IRS enforcement activity on information reporting requirements

• What “one and done” appeal on reporting issues means and why it is so critical to get it right

• How to respond if you receive IRS Letter 226-J notification of potential non-compliance

• What you can do to avoid receiving Letter 226-J

• FMLA/ADA cases and how to avoid “bad faith” judgments

WHAT’S CHANGING?

ACA and other legislative provisions – The New Year continues the ACA’s pattern of numerous changes. Two days after going live on January 1, Washington’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) produced a flood of 75,000 claims. Obtain the specifics on these and other legislative changes.

• Ensuring your plans are affordable under the ACA in 2020

• How to avoid costly mental health and substance abuse penalties

• The dramatic increase in DOL Opinion letters on FMLA/FLSA compliance and what it means

• Contrasting requirements for Washington PFML and the upcoming Oregon PFML regulations

• The critical FMLA/ADA implications for Washington and Oregon cannabis legislation

WHAT TO EXPECT IN 2020

Employer reporting for state individual mandates – Several states with individual health insurance mandates will require employer reporting. Do you know which states require reporting and how it affects your health plan? Obtain the most up-to-date checklist at HUB’s 2020 Legal Update.

Multiple health benefits-related bills – D.C. continues to serve up bills to change health benefits requirements while states crank out new employment bills. See what else is brewing in D.C. and in the Northwest in the swirling changes in employee benefits and employment compliance.

SPEAKERS:

Liliana Salazar – Chief Compliance Officer – Pacific Region, HUB International

David F. Setzkorn – Vice President, West Regional Leader, Absence and Workforce Productivity – HUB International