What is it?
A simple reference guide designed to help employers understand employee benefits and create an employee benefits package that is both contemporary and competitive.

How many pages is it?
This guide contains more than 250 pages of easy-to-read text, including everything employers need to know about reviewing their existing benefit offerings and devising strategies to provide current and prospective employees with benefit packages.

Who wrote it?
A team of attorneys from the Indiana-based law firm of Ice Miller.

Who should order this product?

• Benefits administration directors
• Business owners
• CEOs and CFOs
• Employee relations specialists
• Human resource professionals
• Personnel managers
• Supervisors
• Anyone interested in being in compliance!

What topics are covered?
New and revised sections of the third edition include:

• Discussion of medical savings accounts available as a result of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003.
• Overview of Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage, as well as information for all employers who provide prescription drug benefits to active or retired employees.
• Details about notice requirements for all employers who provide prescription drug benefits to Medicare-eligible individuals.
• Description of amendments to Internal Revenue Code Section 409A. These rules drastically affected the design and administration of many deferred compensation programs and executive compensation programs.
• Examination of the HIPAA Security Regulations applicable to electronic protected health information.
• Discussion of design changes employers may adopt to ease administrative burdens and complexities in their 401(k) plans.
• Expanded discussion of fiduciary obligations that arise in the selection and monitoring of plan service providers, along with SEC tips for monitoring providers of investment services.

This guide also includes information on:

• Insurance (life, disability and other)
• Cafeteria plans
• Retirement benefits
• Equity-based compensation plans
• Worker’s compensation
• Time-off and severance benefits
• Nontraditional work scheduling options (part time, flextime and telecommuting)
• Nontaxable fringe benefits
• Quality-of-life benefits
• HIPAA privacy for small health plans
• ERISA

What is the ISBN number?
978-1-883698-57-X

To order, add this guide to your shopping cart or call customer service at (800) 824-6885.

For more information on the law firm of Ice Miller, go to http://www.icemiller.com.