Tuesday, January 24, 2023
10 am to 2:30 pm Pacific Time
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IN-PERSON, Lunch included
$49 Each
REMOTE via Zoom
$25 for Each
ABC Group Benefits Client, Complimentary Registration
(subject to verification, IN-PERSON attendees limited to 6 complimentary)
Advanced Benefit Consulting Presents Our Lunch & Learn Program!
Featuring: HR Hot Topics For 2023!
- Recruiting Talent: Challenges & Opportunities in 2023!
- Employment/Workplace Laws for 2023—Highlights
- Benefit Programs to Attract & Retain Talent for All Job Tiers
- Working From Home: How to Stay Flexible, But Keep Your Remote Employees Engaged & Secure When Working Remotely
- Ask the Expert Panel—Send Your Questions to Us In Advance (some questions from the floor will be taken as time permits)
Program Details
In Person and Hybrid Zoom Webinar Livestream Available
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
10 am to 2:30 pm
Presented by Advanced Benefit Consulting
In-Person Event Location: Tri-West Showroom, 11925 Pike Street, Santa Fe Springs, CA (South Los Angeles County)
In Person Registration $49 each; Zoom Livestream Webinar Registration $25 each
Confirmed Speakers To Date:
Marilyn Monahan, Esq., Monahan Law Office
Dorothy M. Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA, President, Advanced Benefit Consulting & Services
Kathy Ruffino, MSHR, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-SCP, Vice President, HR Consultant and Trainer, Train Me Today
Ted Flittner, Principal, HIPAA Security & Technology Consultant, Aditi Group
Speaker Bios
Marilyn Monahan, ESQ, Monahan Law Office
Marilyn A. Monahan is the owner of the Monahan Law Office in San Marcos. Marilyn focuses her law practice on advising employers and consultants on compliance with employee benefit and insurance laws, including ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, and COBRA. Her volunteer activities include serving as Secretary of the Employee Benefit Planning Association (EBPA). Marilyn has also served on the Board of Directors of the Professionals in Human Resources Association (PIHRA) (2008-2018). She has represented Advanced Benefit Consulting since its inception in 1995.
Dorothy M. Cociu, RHU, REBC, GBA, RPA, President, Advanced Benefit Consulting
Dorothy Cociu is the President of Advanced Benefit Consulting & Insurance Services, Inc.. She is a leading compliance consultant in the areas of ERISA, HIPAA Privacy & Security, The Affordable Care Act, CAA, Transparency in Coverage and other federal laws and regulations. She is a published author, with a compliance manual (The ABC’s of HIPAA Compliance, published 2000, with updates), and over 80 articles published on the topics above, plus self-funding, cost containment, reference based pricing, and other employee benefits and compliance topics. Her firm specializes in large group employee benefits programs and benefits compliance.
Kathy Ruffino, MSHR, SPHR, PHRca, SHRM-SCP, Vice President, HR Consultant and Trainer, Train Me Today
Kathy Ruffino has dedicated her HR career to helping business leaders envision and implement innovative human resources solutions that produce results. Kathy’s deep understanding of business operations and HR practices allows her to work with clients to create innovative and creative solutions while maintaining compliance in a complex employment landscape. Kathy continues to share her passion for HR as an instructor and mentor, developing and delivering national and international courses on HR, Anti-harassment, leadership development and more.
Ted Flittner, Principal, HIPAA Security & Technology Consultant, Aditi Group
Ted Flittner is a data privacy and electronic data security expert with several decades of experience in information technology and compliance with state and federal privacy laws. Ted’s background as an Industrial & Management Systems Engineer and a career working with IT hardware and managed IT services gives him a perspective for how technology can be leveraged to make us more productive while maintaining privacy and security.
Program Details
10:00– 10:45 Employment & Workplace Laws for 2023
This course will examine the new and continuing laws and regulations that are effective in 2023. We will cover new California state laws related to employment and human resources, as well as federal laws and regulations. This course will focus heavily on California state laws and employment requirements, including AB 152, AB 257, AB 1401, SB 1044, AB 1601, AB 1751, AB 1949, AB 2693, SB 523 and SB 1162, and review other state related employment, benefits and insurance laws. We will also discuss the status of prior federal COVID laws and regulations, as well as the status of the Supreme Court of the United States Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Davita vs. Murietta Hospital Health Plan cases. “The use of this official seal confirms that this Activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.” 0.75 hours of HRCI California Credit.
10:45-11:30 Recruiting Talent: Challenges & Opportunities in a Post-COVID World
One of the greatest challenges employers have in our post-pandemic world is recruiting talent and keeping them from moving on quickly to other employers. This course will provide Human Resources Professionals with helpful information and tools for recruiting and retaining quality employees, by providing them with what they are looking for now and in their future. This course will cover opportunities for remote work and how to design job descriptions for remote employees at all job tiers, the challenges of hiring a remote or hybrid workforce and how to overcome them, the types of benefits that attract recruits and keep them on the job, and tools to keep employees engaged long-term. “The use of this official seal confirms that this Activity has met HR Cer-tification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.” 0.75 hours of HRCI General Credit.
11:30-12:15 Benefit Programs to Attract and Retain Talent for All Job Tiers
In today’s market, top talent not only wants, but expects, a robust and innovative employee benefits program that will set one em-ployer apart from the rest. In this presentation, we will talk about how you can design, consistent with federal and state laws, a health and welfare benefits program tailored to your workforce, including medical plans, dental and other plans, along with voluntary options. New developments in the law, and how they enhance plan design options, will be addressed. Although we will address many types of benefits that attract talent, particular attention will be given to recent changes in the law that allows employers to create an Educational Assistance Program through which employers can help their employees pay off part of their student loan debt or current college and vocational expense each calendar year. The use of this official seal confirms that this Activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.” 0.75 hours of HRCI General Credit.
12:15-1:00—Lunch Break
1:00—2:15 HR Challenges with Remote Workers; How To Stay Flexible and Keep Your Employees Engaged and Secure
Recruiting and retaining quality employees has never been more difficult or more necessary. With applicants wanting more and more remote work, there are challenges for Human Resources and company management in monitoring remote workers without being intrusive, keeping them engaged so that they are more productive, offering more flexibility for a remote staff, and also keeping the company’s data secure while people are working from home. In this course, we will examine the ways human resources and management staff can manage remote workers more efficiently and effectively, using technology tools while still maintaining a face-to-face relationship with staff working from home. How do you keep them engaged? What kind of technology can be used so that management feels comfortable that remote workers are actually working, without being too intrusive? Finding that right mix is the goal of many employers, and this course tackles these challenges head on. We discuss creative ways to keep employees en-gaged and productive, while also keeping company data secure. This course ends with a special Ask the Expert Panel (questions may be submitted in advance; live questions from the floor will be allowed as time permits). The use of this official seal con-firms that this Activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.” 1.25 hours of HRCI General Credit.
We ask that attendees submit questions in advance to Dorothy Cociu at dmcociu@advancedbenefitconsulting.com for the Ask the Expert Panel, on any of the topics included in this program. Clients are complimentary, as usual. Clients will be verified for no-cost registration.
3.5 Total Hours of HRCI Credit Available! (4 classes: 0.75 HR CI California Credit and 2.75 hours of HRCI General Credit).
For Questions or Seminar Reservations, Please Call (714) 693-9754 x 2, or Toll-Free at (866) 658-3835 x2.
