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Employee Benefit Plans

BUS ADM X450

40298
Delivery Options Online

Get an introduction to employee benefit plans: what they include and how are designed, administered and evaluated. Study the most common types of discretionary benefits, and learn how they are selected and administered. Explore legal requirements, administrative problems and available options, as well as government-mandated plans such as workers' compensation and Social Security. Examine important policy issues on sick leave, vacation, jury duty and leaves of absence, and learn how they are related to organizational culture and policy. Pay special attention to the effects of tax reform and other emerging developments in benefits planning.

Course Outline

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Course Objectives 

  • Define the basic types of benefit plans, including health and welfare and retirement plans
  • Understand how companies can use employee benefits to recruit, retain, reward and retire employees
  • Analyze and discuss the importance of employee benefits in helping organizations achieve their business goals
  • Determine what is needed to effectively and efficiently design, administer and communicate employee benefits plans
  • Identify plans governed by ERISA and understand the basic ERISA requirements
  • Understand the differences between various types of qualified plans and understand the basic qualification requirements
  • Learn basic principles of nonqualified deferred compensation planning
  • Gain familiarity with equity-based compensation
  • Recognize issues created by health care and welfare benefits and retirement


What You Learn

  • Management and planning
  • Social Security, Medicare and other government programs
  • Group insurance environment
  • Life, disability and medical expense plans
  • Managed care health insurance programs
  • Consumer-directed plans and tax treatment
  • Dental, long-term care and other plans
  • Funding and group insurance rate-making
  • Retirement plans
  • Qualified plan distributions and loans
  • Plan installation and administration
  • Executive benefits and nonqualified deferred compensation plans

How You Learn 

  • Lectures
  • Class discussions 


Is This Course Right for Me?
This course is aimed at benefit managers and HR generalists looking to supplement their background in employee benefits.

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Sections

Section 010

Start Anytime Online

Course Fee(s)

Course Fee credit (2 units)

$995.00

Type Online, Start Anytime

Enroll anytime and progress through the curriculum at your own pace.

Dates
Start Now, you have 180 days to complete this course once enrolled.

Delivery Options

Online

Available for Credit

2 semester units

Instructors

  • Richard Takahashi

Section Notes

Online, enroll anytime. This continuous enrollment course begins when you enroll. (Learn more.) You have a minimum of 60 days and a maximum of 180 days to complete the course.

Students must score a 70% or higher on the final exam/project/paper, as assigned by instructor, to pass the course.

Section Materials

  • Textbook (Mandatory) Employee Benefits by Burton T. Beam, Jr. and John J. McFadden © 2012 Dearborn 9th edition ISBN 1427735646

This course applies to the following programs:

Certificate Program in Human Resource Management

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Required Courses

  • Essentials of Human Resources
  • Aligning Human Resource Initiatives With Business Success
  • Employee Recruitment, Selection and Placement
  • Effective Performance Management
  • Total Rewards
  • Employee Relations
  • Talent Management and Workforce Development

Electives

  • Human Resource Systems and Technology
  • Introduction to Human Capital Analytics
  • Employment Law
  • Organization Development and Change
  • Mediation and Conflict Resolution
  • Employee Benefit Plans

Learn More About this Program

Notes

Departmental contact: extension-business@berkeley.edu | (510) 642-4231
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Richard Takahashi

Richard Takahashi, M.B.A., is a benefits manager for Pacific Gas and Electric Company and has more than 20 years of diversified employee benefits experience in both the public and private sectors. He has actively managed retirement and health and welfare plans for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and other Bay Area companies, including Charles Schwab, Safeway, Clorox and McKesson.

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