Negotiating Employee Benefits

DESCRIPTION:

Negotiating cost-effective employment benefits in collective agreements is challenging, to say the least.  This session examines premium sharing versus cost sharing, cafeteria-type benefit plans, cost-fixing arrangements and ways of limiting your exposure to claims. Learn how to structure negotiated benefit plans that are more cost-predictable and that ensure your liability is limited to paying the negotiated premium.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• See how properly structuring your negotiated benefit plans can make them more cost effective and cost predictable
• Compare premium sharing and cost sharing
• Learn more about cafeteria-type benefit plans and cost-fixing arrangements
• Find out how to ensure your liability is limited to the negotiated premium
  

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Certified as a specialist in labour law by the Law Society of Upper Canada and as a human resources professional by HRPA, Stewart Saxe has authored or co-authored six books in the employment and labour law field. He is a partner in the Toronto office of Baker & McKenzie and works exclusively in labour and employment law. Saxe was co-chair of the firm’s global labour and employment law practice group from 1983 to 1993.  Stewart Saxe’s practice emphasizes a proactive and prevention-oriented approach to assisting clients in finding solutions to labour and employment challenges.  He has assisted clients in over 250 sets of collective agreement negotiations.  Areas he has advised on include labour standards legislation, human rights laws and executive hiring and firing.  In 2006, Canadian Lawyer Magazine listed him as one of the five leading Canadian negotiators. He is a member of the Ontario Human Resources Committee of the Alliance of Manufacturers and Exporters of Canada and a member of the appeals committee of HRPA.