As an article in HR Magazine noted, "Unemployment insurance costs you plenty," unfortunately for many employers, the current trend continues. Higher taxes rates are only the start point in increasing UI liabilities. State UI agencies, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the IRS are ramping up their vigilance and audit activities of employers' payrolls in a search of misclassified workers and missing UI tax payments. The result is employers increasingly have to pay UI taxes on a broader tax base: previously classified independent contractors.

On the UI claims-hearing front, plaintiff attorneys are increasingly using UI hearings as a discovery tool and incorporating the UI claims process in their legal strategy. At the policy level, states have been encouraged by the federal government to broaden benefit entitlement. In response employers are taking a new look at their UI cost management programs and activities and are becoming more aggressive in ferreting out ineffective practices.

Join Ronald Adler, president-CEO of Laurdan Associates Inc., a national expert in HR auditing and employment practices liability risk management and nationally recognized in unemployment insurance issues, for a provocative look at implementing effective UI cost management.

Course Objective:

UI taxes have financial, managerial and legal impact on organizations. Proper UI management can reduce tax liabilities, improve human resources and manpower planning, and reduce an organization liability to employment related claims.

Course Outline:

• Review the principles of UI cost management.
• Discuss the importance of UI cost management and UI auditing.
• Examine the strategic, HR management, financial, and claims-hearing factors affecting your organization's exposure to UI tax and benefits liability.
• Review the critical components of effective UI cost management and UI auditing.
• Answer your questions about the costs and resources associated with UI cost management.

What You Get:

• Training Materials
• Live Q&A Session with the Speaker
• Participation Certificate
• Access to Signup Community (Optional)
• Reward Points

Who Will Benefit:

• HR
• CFOs
• Controllers
• Payroll
• COOs
• Lawyers