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Employee Benefits Jobs

Education Consultant
for AXA Equitable in CA, TX

Institutional Trust Area Manager
for Regions Financial Corp. in TN

Employee Benefits Sales Executive
for Winona Agency in MN

Dedicated Retirement Counselor
for Prudential in AL

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Webcasts and Conferences

Employers and the NYS Marriage Equality Act: It's Time to Get Acquainted
in New York on August 4, 2011 presented by Hodgson Russ


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[Guidance Overview]
Court Finds for Whirlpool in Retiree Benefits Modification Suit
"The Des Moines Register reports that [a U.S. District Judge] found that the union could not prove that retiree benefits were for their lifetimes—that is, vested." (PLANSPONSOR.COM)


Upcoming Webcast—Health Care Fraud: Disasters, Impact, Solutions   [Advert.]

Sponsored by IFEBP (International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans)

This Foundation Webcast will demonstrate the many ways fraud and medical identity theft impact the cost of health care and the quality of care. Attendees will learn the types of health care fraud, who commits it, and how they do it. Register Now!


Six Tips for Making Preventive Health Care Easier and More Important for Employees
"[U]nder the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, most employer-sponsored plans will be offering network preventive care free of charge. That's one less barrier to completing the recommended screenings." (Employee Benefit News; free registration required)

The U.S. Health System in Perspective: A Comparison of Twelve Industrialized Nations
"The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tracks and reports on more than 1,200 health system measures across 34 industrialized countries. This analysis concentrated on 2010 OECD health data for Australia, (Can.ada), Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States." (The Commonwealth Fund)

Health Care Reform Update, July 25, 2011 (PDF)
"Read this week's update on health care reform legislation, regulations, and initiatives." (ML Strategies, LLC)

Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts: The COMPARE Microsimulation Model
"COMPARE is a microsimulation model that predicts the effects of health policy changes at national and state levels. The model takes a synthetic data set with information on a nationally representative sample of individuals and their employers and predicts how they will react under different policy scenarios." (RAND)


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The Thomas Moore Law Center Presses Its Health Law Challenge
"'Marking the first appeal of its kind to reach the nation's highest court, the conservative legal group continues to insist the mandate requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional'" (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)

[Opinion]
ERIC Cautions Regulators to Avoid Burdensome Claims and Appeals Requirements (PDF)
"Employers do not have unlimited resources to spend on health care . . . . ACA has imposed a number of expensive new mandates on employer health plans that were already struggling to cope with runaway medical costs. Before the Amendment, the interim final regulations included a number of features that would have increased employers' administrative costs without producing a corresponding increase in employees' welfare." (The ERISA Industry Committee)

Benefits in General; Executive Compensation

Four Steps to Workplace Flexibility and Smart Scheduling
"The common assumption is that workplace flexibility is impractical for hourly workers. Not so: On that Monday, models emerged to offer workplace flexibility in three contexts where it might seem impossible: health care, restaurants and small business." (TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc)

ESOP Repurchase Obligation Handbook Now in Print
Every closely held company with an ESOP has a legal obligation to offer to repurchase stock distributed to ESOP participants. Written by leading experts, this book combines practical discussions with research in exploring the repurchase obligation and how it can be planned for and dealt with. The page for the book offers a PDF of excerpts from every chapter. (National Center for Employee Ownership)

[Opinion]
Text of Comments by 22 Prominent Lawyers on Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, Advocating Modifications and Delay, or Repeal (PDF)
Lawyers with various large law firms and consulting firms drafted this 10-page comment letter in their individual capacities, commenting to the SEC on the portion of the Dodd-Frank Act requiring disclosure of the ratio of a CEO's pay to the median pay of a registered employer's workers. Excerpt: '[F]or the reasons set forth below, registrants should be given several years (at least two years from the effective date of the regulations) in order the implement [section 953(b)]." (Consortium of Employee Benefits Lawyers, published on BenefitsLink.com)

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