Tuesday, July 15 - Wednesday, July 16, 2025
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Learn about the history of benefits and the role that collective bargaining played in the growth of employee benefits in the United States.
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Understand the legal framework that employee benefit plans exist in and how that impacts collective bargaining.
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Review the unique aspects of benefit plans as they relate to:
- Making the business case for participation
- Value proposition for stakeholders
- How benefits impact recruitment and retention.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Understand the characteristics and differences between:
- Single employer plans
- Multiemployer plans
- Public sector plans.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Learn about the collective bargaining process and how to execute it for a successful outcome.
- Collective bargaining structures
- Who are the players?
- Managing a bargaining committee
- Prep work
- Logistics
- Writing and memorializing proposals
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Explore retirement plan topics, including:
- Plan types: Defined benefit and defined contribution plans
- Plan designs and features
- Hot topics: Retirement income, fraud and abuse
- Retirement legislative update: Secure Act 2.0, cybersecurity.
10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Explore health plans and health benefits topics, including:
- Plan types, managed care, funding, plan design
- Plan designs and features
- Overview of Rx plans
- The range of ancillary coverages: Dental, vision, life, etc.
- Hot topics: Mental health, Rx, wellness, fraud and abuse
- Health care legal and legislative update: No Surprises, Dobbs, cybersecurity.
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hone your skills as you learn:
- Best practices for bargaining benefits
- Unique issues when bargaining health benefits
- Unique issues when bargaining retirement benefits
- Other negotiated employee benefits
- How to create a bargaining history
- How to cost out benefit proposals
- Case studies
- Best practices
- Open discussion/Q&A.