FFCRA Lawsuits and DOL Complaints begin - Is Your Company Ready?

Most employers with less than 500 lives will need to implement the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) on April 2, 2020.   The DOL recently awarded an employee from a manufacturing company $4,352 for failure to comply with providing leave under FFCRA and failure to provide the required FFCRA notice.  This webinar focuses on the Emergency Family Medical Expansion Act and the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act requires employers to provide paid sick leave to employees affected by the Coronavirus.

An in-depth view of what the law will require from an employer with less than 500 employees, including identifying those areas that will need more guidance.  Once completed, the employer or HR professional should be able to:

• Develop an implementation Plan and Communicate Plan for employees
• Understand who is eligible for the new benefit
• Understand how to calculate payment of the new benefit
• Able to answer questions from employees on the new benefit
• Template to minimize risk of costly judgements and/or lawsuits

• An overview of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
• Discussion of how to implement and manage the Emergency Family Medical Leave Expansion Act (EFMLEA)
• Discussion of how to implement and manage the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act (EPSLA)
• Review how EFMLEA and EPSLA work together to protect employees with paid sick leave
• Overview of how the tax credits to pay for the benefit will work
• Management and Communication Strategies to help reduce risk of lawsuits

Employers with less than 500 employees must not only implement this new paid sick leave benefit but ensure they remain in compliance.  Failure to provide the required notice, provide leave for qualified events or not documenting properly to receive the tax credit can be costly to an employer’s bottom line.  Employers who have less than 50 employees should attend because prior to this, most of these employers were exempt from FMLA and may be unfamiliar with how to manage this type of benefit. 

• Business owners
• CEO
• CFO
• Human Resource Managers and staff
• third party administrators who handle FMLA or Leave of absence policies, possibly brokers or agents and anyone who needs to communicate this new benefit to employees.

Robin Benton, has worked for 37 years in the welfare benefit administration and compliance industry.  She spent 17 years in the insurance field, and worked in every aspect of the industry, including billing, product design, compliance and computer automation. The complex field of Federal Regulations, including communicating and implementing them efficiently, is her specialty.

As an industry expert, she had been responsible for training a national sales force, being a national speaker and helped develop programs to train other Third-Party Administrators, benefit and human resource professionals.

A small business owner and CEO of BCL Systems, Inc., she has helped small- to mid-sized companies navigate the confusing realm of Federal Regulations for over 20 years.