WEBINARS
RogersGray and our partners at the Baldwin Regulatory Compliance Collaborative (BRCC) produce webinars throughout the year to support client educational needs.
Attendees of the Baldwin Professional Education Connection (BPEC) webcast presentations are eligible to apply for HRCI or SHRM professional continuing education credits.
3.15 at 11am EST | The Rise of the Modern Manager
Companies can no longer afford to avoid or postpone efforts to develop their leadership teams and front-line managers. Managing an evolved workforce, even in the best of times, requires a different and more nuanced set of leadership skills, as well as a more adaptive, continuous approach to accelerate the development and application of those skills in the flow of work.
In this webinar, Jon Greenawalt (SVP of Customer Transformation at 15Five, former CPO of Shark Ninja) will be sharing the 5 essential elements the modern manager needs to be successful in today’s ever changing landscape.
You Will Learn:
• What is causing the disconnect between employees and managers
• How managers can serve as an extension of HR
• How the world of work continues to transform
• Why managers are more important than ever
• The Modern Manager and how to scale their effectiveness
• 5 practical ways the modern manager can create thriving teams
• How you can implement Workforce Training Grants for development of your teams
Speaker:
3.29 at 1pm EST | ERISA 103: Annual Form 5500 Filing Requirements Required by ERISA
Each year, US-based employer-sponsored health and welfare plans must prepare and submit a Form 5500, Annual Report/Return of Employee Benefit Plan.
The Form 5500 preparation and filing process can become a monster in and of itself; however, balancing accuracy with the deployment of new efficiencies respecting the preparation of the annual statement may result in a more streamlined, and less disruptive, Form 5500 filing season.
In this program, participants will take a deep dive into Form 5500, dissecting its requirements to design an actionable plan of attack for accomplishing this important and reoccurring regulatory requirement. We’ll walk through the preparation and submission of delinquent Form 5500s, as well as a review of the interrelated corrective processes employers may utilize to re-submit previously reported inaccurate Form 5500 statements.
Broadcast during the same month as the launch of our new Form 5500 Filing Resource Center, this March 2023 educational program is a must for all employers grappling with the preparation and timely submission of these required annual statements.
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers include:
Nicole Fender (S)
Catlin Hillenbrand (S)
Jason Sheffield (M)
4.26 at 1pm EST | MHPAEA 102: Understanding and Mapping the Employer’s MHPAEA Audit & Compliance Obligations
In this part two of our two-part mental health parity and addiction equity educational series, we delve deeper into the topic of mental health parity, specifically addressing the Department of Labor’s MHPAEA guidelines for self-funded health plan sponsors.
We’ll look at the DOL’s self-compliance tool for employer plan sponsors and discuss how this tool may help an employer obtain and maintain MHPAEA compliance assuredness. We’ll also work through the actionable steps of the MHPAEA obligations required of self-funded plan sponsors to ascertain, and demonstrate in a written comparative analysis, each plan’s state of mental health parity compliance.
It is suggested that interested participants who did not attend the MHPAEA 101 broadcast on January 31, 2023, request an emailed link to view an archived recording of the presentation, as an understanding of the foundational information provided in the MHPAEA 101 program is a suggested component of successful contemplation and administration of the employer obligations detailed in part two of our MHPAEA educational series.
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers include:
Bill Freeman (S)
Jason Sheffield (S)
Marie Smith (M)
5.31 at 1pm EST | HIPAA 103: An Introduction to HIPAA’s Breach Notification Rule & HIPAA’s Enforcement Rule
Education reflective of HIPAA’s Enforcement and Breach Notification rules rounds out our HIPAA Complete foundational series respecting HIPAA’s four main rules.
In this module, participants will explore the substantive requirements underlying the concept of breach notification, including the specific conditions giving rise to the breach notification requirements, as well as the practical performance of these requirements, including form, content, dissemination, and archival of notifications.
Next, we’ll tackle the Enforcement Rule to obtain an understanding of the additional requirements from the 2013 Omnibus HIPAA Rule, along with an overview of the enforcement process for HIPAA breaches and administrative simplification violations.
Through an understanding of the various enforcement levers available to the Office for Civil Rights, as well as the larger US Health and Human Services organization, participants will glean advanced knowledge respecting avoidance and preparedness for the HIPAA enforcement process.
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers include:
Natashia Wright (S)
Jason Sheffield (S)
Marie Smith (M)
6.28 at 1pm EST | Roundup 2023: Legislative Roundup of Hot Topics in Employee Benefits for 2023
During this timely session, participants will learn aspects of the most significant employee benefit-related events occurring in 2022 and throughout the first half of 2023.
Ranging from HIPAA and mental health parity updates to the many consequences and effects of the conclusion of the COVID-related National and Public Health Emergencies, this session is designed as a clearing house for legal and legislative highlights from the most-recent 18-month period. Attendees should expect a fast-paced, summarized digest of benefits-related news and happenings.
Although individual coverage of topics presented in this learning module will be summarized into a digest form, supplemental program materials will provide attendees with additional information and further commentary respecting many of the substantive updates offered during the program.
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers include:
Stephanie Hall (S)
Richard Asensio (S)
Jason Sheffield (M)
7.26 at 1pm EST | Leave 101: An Introduction to the Family Medical Leave Act and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
The Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) was and continues to be, a life link for American families struggling with illness and significant injuries. This landmark legislation signed by former president Bill Clinton was one of the first substantive steps to provide workers with guaranteed worksite leave rights to care for themselves or their close family members while assuring an individual would be able to return to work upon resolution.
Guaranteeing unpaid worksite leave respecting short-term events up to twelve weeks in duration per year, as well as ongoing leave for intermittent medical emergencies and illnesses, the worksite leave rights guaranteed by the FMLA are an essential safety net for families navigating such uncertainties in life.
Worksite leave rights were further bolstered by the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) USERRA protects the job rights of individuals who voluntarily or involuntarily leave employment positions to undertake military service or certain types of service in the National Disaster Medical System.
USERRA also prohibits employers from discriminating against past and present members of the uniformed services, and applicants to the uniformed services.
On September 29, 2022, President Biden signed S. 2293 the “Civilian Reservist Emergency Workforce Act of 2021” or the “CREW Act,” into law. The “CREW Act” extends employment protections under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reservists who deploy to major disaster sites.
Join us for an introductory survey of the worksite leave rights and other employee entitlements guaranteed by the operation of these two significant pieces of legislation in this important educational program.
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers include:
Marie Smith (S)
Bill Freeman (S)
Jason Sheffield (M)
8.30 at 1pm EST | COBRA 101: An Introduction to the Law and Practice of COBRA Administration
The Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (“COBRA”) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events.
COBRA outlines how employees and family members may elect such “continuation coverage.” It also requires employers and plans to provide employees with certain notices and other required disclosures relative to the availability, cost, and length of coverage.
In this foundational program, participants will explore these and other legal and regulatory entitlements to the continuation of health coverage for employees who lose their jobs or who experience a reduction of working hours, disqualifying their health coverage.
Additionally, we’ll evaluate the effect of the COBRA requirements and the associated coverage entitlements extended to the children and spouse of an affected employee.
Practitioners looking for an actionable and practical survey of the law and regulation of COBRA, either as an introductory module or for purposes of refreshing their current knowledge and skills, will find this program both effective and informative.
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers include:
Nicole Fender (S)
Jason Sheffield (S)
Marie Smith (M)
9.27 at 1pm EST | ACA 101: Understanding and Administering Employer Reporting Obligations contained within the ACA
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers:
Stephanie Hall (S)
Jason Sheffield (S)
Marie Smith (M)
10.25 at 1pm EST | ADA 101: An Introduction to the Law and Practice of ADA Administration
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A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers:
Paul Van Brunt (S)
Caitlin Hillenbrand (S)
Marie Smith (M)
11.29 at 1pm EST | ERISA 104: An Introduction to Cafeteria Plans and Account-based Products
12.27 at 1pm EST | Leave 102: An Introduction to State and Local-level Worksite Leave Requirements
A Baldwin Professional Education Connection Webcast.
Speakers:
Marie Smith (S)
HR-Link Service Partners (S)
Jason Sheffield (M)
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