Employer's Handbook: Legal, Tax, and Health Care Issues

Overview

The employer-employee relationship strains both sides in uncertain times, and businesses need CPAs, controllers, and other advisors to provide understanding of the complex legal, tax, and health care issues associated with all aspects of employment. This course provides in-depth coverage of this critical area. It will be updated and supplemented throughout the year to cover breaking developments.

Objectives

Identify the legal issues in hiring, evaluating, and firing employees

Discuss federal laws that curtail an employer in taking actions involving employees and applicants

Understand the requirements that fringe benefits and compensation programs place on employers

Highlights

Hiring and firing issues - What questions cannot be asked in an interview; how to document employee performance; establishing an annual review system; when an employer may and may not fire an employee, and much more

Employment contracts - An analysis of the legal and planning issues in structuring employment contracts; when noncompetition agreements will and will not work

Employment issues in the economy - Telecommuters and other special situations

Legal liability issues - Recognition of age discrimination, sex discrimination, FLSA issues, minimum wage, overtime, sexual harassment, and more

Fringe benefit issues - COBRA, Family and Medical Leave Act, and new developments in health care

Medical plans - Who is a full-time employee?

Designed For

CPAs seeking an in-depth understanding of employment issues

Prerequisites

None

Preparation

None

Notice

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Leader(s):

William Taylor

Leader Bios

William Taylor

WILLIAM F. (Bill) TAYLOR, CPA Water Valley, Mississippi William F. (Bill) Taylor, CPA is President of Lifetime Financial Solutions, LLC, a financial coaching firm, and a CPA in private practice. Since retiring as Community Bank President of Renasant Bank in Water Valley, MS, he has served as an adjunct assistant professor in the MBA program at the University of Mississippi. Bill has worked in the employee benefit and investment fields for over 25 years, beginning his career as the Employee Benefits Coordinator in the Jackson, MS, office of KPMG Peat Marwick and managing his own firm since 1999. A nationally known consultant and speaker, Bill has conducted seminars for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries, CPA and bar associations in 45 states, and many private organizations. He has been awarded both the AICPA Outstanding Discussion Leader award and the James L. McCoy Discussion Leader of the Year Award from Surgent CPE. Bill is the author of Taxation of Employee Benefits Volume I and Volume II, and his articles have appeared in numerous publications.

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