Center for Competitive Management (C4CM) Webinar

Bulletproofing Your Benefit Plan from Contingent Worker Claims

Although the broader labor market continues to struggle, the Department of Labor’s statistics demonstrate that employers are using contingent workers more and more as overall demand increases. In its February 2010 report, the Department of Labor revealed that temporary help services organizations added 48,000 jobs in February, the seventh straight month of growth for this industry.

Hidden in this good news, however, is a potential minefield for unsuspecting employers that utilize temporary and other forms of contingent workers (e.g., leased employees, part-timers, independent contractors). Any organization that is using or is considering using contingent workers needs to properly navigate rough waters to ensure that their employee benefit plans are structured and drafted to clearly delineate the classes of workers that are eligible and those that are not.

Adam Greetis, a Seyfarth Shaw Employee Benefits partner, will lead a webinar for the Center for Competitive Management (C4CM) that will provide participants with a framework for analyzing benefit plans and avoiding disputes and litigation over benefit plan entitlement.

• Identify and collect the appropriate documents to review
• Properly review eligibility conditions and exclusionary provisions
• Understand interpretative issues relating to benefit eligibility
• Develop clear and precise definitions for your plans
• Develop strategies to effectively limit benefit eligibility
• Appreciate the unique pitfalls in service-based exclusions in retirement plans
  

Registration details are available through the Center for Competitive Management.

Center for Competitive Management (CCM) / www.c4cm.com