Part II: Identifying Full-Time Employees To Avoid Penalties under the Pay or Play Rules
Date: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm EST
Length: Approximately 2 hours
Cost: $199.99 per location. This includes the live webinar and the recorded podcast for future listening.
The ACA Employer Shared Responsibility (Pay or Play) final regulation includes complex rules for identifying full-time employees for purposes of determining which employees need to be offered coverage to avoid penalty taxes. The rules offer different methods for identifying full-time employees that TPAs need to understand and explain to their clients. Our prior webinar (Part I) on this topic (first aired on April 30, 2014) focused on the definition of "hour of service" rules and how the measurement methods differ for ongoing employees vs. new variable hour employees.
Speaker:
Ashley Gillihan, Alston & Bird, the author of the SPBA Instruction Manual on Pay or Play.
Learning Objectives
- Learn when an initial measurement period can be used and the options it gives employers.
- Understand the pros and cons of using the monthly measurement period and which employers are candidates for the monthly measurement period. Understand the pros and cons of the monthly measurement period.
- Learn to apply the measurement, stability, and administrative periods; despite the flexibility, what is recommended and why.
- Learn how to handle a change in employment status, or a leave of absense during an initial measurement period; during a stability period.
- Understand how the measurement methods impact the penalties. For example, which employees under each method qualify as a full-time employee in a month and which ones qualify as a full-time employee to whom coverage must be offered in order to avoid excise taxes.
Who Should Attend:
Direct employees of SPBA member TPA firms and Stop-Loss Partners should attend.
Cost:
SPBA has received requests from members to include a low-cost recorded version of the webinar along the live webinar purchase. For an additional $24.99, the podcast version has been added to the live webinar purchase. The podcast version has no limit on the number of times it can be replayed. The cost will be $199.99 per location for the live webinar. You may have as many people as can fit in a room, hear a conference call and see a computer screen.
Please note: Any transmission or re-transmission of this event to additional sites/rooms by any means including but not limited to the use of a telephone conference bridge whether or not owned by the registrant is strictly prohibited.
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Webinar Recorded for Future Listening
In addition to this live webinar, this webinar will be recorded and offered in a streaming mode (Internet connection required) and a podcast only format (permitting you to download the recording and use it disconnected from the Internet). The podcast is an MP3 format, audio-only file, that you can “save as” to your computer hard drive and then move to any MP3 compatible device. The podcast will not provide the corresponding PPT video since it is an audio-only file. However, you can download the PPT from the SPBA website.
Date Presented:
July 23, 2014 1:00 PM Eastern
Length:
2 hours
Registration Fee:
$199.99
Streaming - Recording
SPBA Price:$175.00
Podcast - Recording (Downloadable File)
SPBA Price:$175.00