The Guide To Becoming An Employee Benefits Know It All

Updated: July 2017 to include 130 employee benefit reference sources (surveys, legal references, periodicals, books, government guides, professional associations and certifications).This Guide is chock full of resources, information and real life examples selected to assist new and and developing employee benefit and HR professionals in learning about and confidently managing workplace employee benefit programs. Instead of providing summaries of employee benefit statutes and regulations, this Guide focuses on where to find reliable sources to interpret and implement them. There are also real life examples of the challenges and triumphs of administering workplace benefits, including leaves of absence, claim disputes, benefit plan communication and more. Employee benefit professionals learn their craft on the job and with the help of the occasional seminar or certification course. However, this approach to learning is slow. At its worst it can perpetuate misinformation and misunderstanding. To fill in the gaps in knowledge of real life employee benefit administration, new and developing employee benefit professionals can learn from the real world challenges and triumphs of seasoned benefit pros. Also includes 6 Bonus Documents (Microsoft Word and Excel templates to calculate premium changes, adjust benefit deductions, create personalized compensation statements and COBRA notices and use pivot tables and VLOOKUP) that will take your benefits game to the next level.Lastly, an "Instructors Guide" is available to colleges and universities to teach the concepts outlined throughout the book. This separate Guide includes an in-class discussion outline for each book chapter, as well as group and independent class assignments.