The $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 may focus on the financial sector, but its reach extends to employers, too. The Act includes many provisions relating to health care, taxes, and compensation and serves as a reminder that now more than ever, you need to have a solid benefits administration plan in place – and be prepared for some tough questions from your employees.

Order this in-depth 90-minute audio conference recording all about recent changes in the law that you need to know about, as well as practical tips for ensuring that your benefits and/or investment committees don’t misstep when deciding what to offer - or what to cut.

Our experts, both experienced employee benefits attorneys, will cover:

• A checklist for reviewing your benefit and investment plans so your benefit and/or investment committees make educated - and legal - moves when they need to change plan offerings
• Reduction-in-force considerations that go hand-in-hand with your role as a benefit or investment plan sponsor
• What you need to know about the employment-related provisions of the recently enacted Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, including the mental health parity requirement and bicycle commuter benefit
• Why a provision of the new act concerning executive compensation may apply to you even if you think it doesn’t
• What a money market guarantee has to do with your liability as plan sponsor
• Your obligations, as plan sponsor, in light of the Department of Labor’s soon-to-be finalized fee disclosure requirements

Peter Hunt, Esq., is a partner in the New York office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP. He advises employers, financial institutions, and investment funds on fiduciary and compliance issues under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, and securities laws. He regularly advises on the employee benefits and executive compensation aspects of corporate acquisitions and dispositions, and he is the Chair of the Employment and Independent Contractor Status Subcommittee of the Employee Benefits Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tax Section.

Susan P. Serota, Esq., is a partner in the New York office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, where she leads the firm’s Executive Compensation & Benefits practice and serves as a member of the ERISA Litigation Team. Serota has experience in all areas of pensions, employee benefits, executive compensation and stock options, and she has significant experience in the compensation of senior executives, fiduciary matters relating to ERISA and other plans, international benefits, employee benefit aspects of mergers and acquisitions, welfare plans (health, life and severance), ERISA fiduciary litigation and securities law matters. A member of the Executive Compensation subcommittee of the Federal Regulation of Securities Committee of the ABA Section of Business Law, Serota actively participates in issues relating to proxy disclosure of executive compensation. She is also the former chair of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation, the nation’s largest organization of tax lawyers, and past chair of the ABA Tax Section’s Employee Benefits Committee.

Approved for Recertification Credit

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification.

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