Employee Benefits 101: What Every Small Business Owner Should Know
April 16 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
This course will help businesses understand tools to recruit and retain top talent, cover health and welfare plan design, funding options, retirement plans, paid time off, and creative benefits. Participants will learn how to choose and fund the right benefits strategy for their employees and business.
This course will be held virtually on April 16, 2025, from 11:00am to 1:00pm. The course minimum is 5 people and is limited to 10 people.
Small business owners need to know about all of the tools available to them to recruit and retain the top talent they will need to succeed in business. Understanding all of the various types of employee benefits and how they operate is essential to that goal. In this program, you’ll learn about:
- Health and welfare plan design, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Health and welfare plan funding options.
- Determining a benefits strategy on cost-sharing with employees.
- Qualified retirement plan designs, including defined benefit, defined contribution (such as 401(k)’s), and combo plans.
- Paid time off plan design options.
- Creative benefit ideas utilizing the Internal Revenue Code.
- Ancillary benefits such as indemnity plans and specific disease programs.
After attending this program participants will also be able to:
- Choose the benefit array that’s right for the owner and their employees.
- Determine how to best fund their employee benefit offerings.
Internationally recognized as an expert in the field, Gary Kushner is one of the nation’s most sought-after speakers on HR strategy and employee benefits. He has advised four U.S. Presidents on health care and has testified before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and the U.S. House Small Business Committee on employee benefit issues.
Gary Kushner is also a frequent resource to the news media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Associated Press, Knight-Ridder, the Kiplinger Washington Newsletter, CNN News, Fortune, MSNBC, and “Good Morning America” among others. Additionally, he serves on the Editorial Review Board of HR Management magazine and an adviser to the Hope Health Letter.
This course would be beneficial to owners and staff with responsibilities for designing and funding an employee benefit offering to themselves and their employees.
Point Value: 2
