Navigating COVID-19 compliance challenges under the CARES Act and Families First Coronavirus Response Act  

As employers move past the immediate impact of COVID-19 and consider longer term business strategies, it's imperative they pay careful attention to compliance obligations that affect workforce planning and benefits programs. 

New legislation such as the CARES Act and Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), as well as compliance basics, have become even more important given the current environment.

This session touches on key employment, health, and retirement plan compliance priorities. Our speakers discussed how the CARES Act and FFCRA impact:

• Layoffs and furloughs

• Wage and hour considerations

• WARN Act

• Plan fundamentals during a crisis, such as:    

  • Mid-year plan changes, including plan documentation, ACA implications, and employee communications

  • HIPAA privacy and security implications

  • COBRA requirements

• Select retirement plan compliance issues

About our speakers

Amy Dunn | Amy is a Principal in Buck’s Compliance Consulting practice and specializes in employer health and welfare plans. Her background includes consulting on federal, state and local regulations, such as the PPACA, HIPAA, COBRA, USERRA, wellness plans, and IRS section 125 plans.

Jane Lee | Jane is a Principal in Buck’s Compliance Consulting practice and has experience in both the administrative and legal areas of benefit compliance. She currently serves as the national and northeast lead for retirement compliance consulting, specializing in the design, governance compliance and administration of benefit plans and programs, with a focus on qualified and non-qualified retirement plans.

Rich Stover | Rich is a Principal and Consulting Actuary in Buck’s Compliance Consulting practice and has experience assisting clients in strategy, design, legislative compliance, and financial analysis for both active and retiree life and health programs. He has consulted extensively on the Affordable Care Act and has expertise in the financial, plan design, and compliance aspects of group life and health benefits.

Nancy Vary | Nancy is a Director in Buck’s Compliance Consulting practice.  An attorney and HR professional, her experience covers a wide range of design, delivery, and operational issues surrounding human resources initiatives and employee benefit programs in both unionized and non-union settings. Her background includes legal/regulatory compliance, plan administration, employee communications, absence management, executive/incentive compensation, reductions-in-force, severance programs, EEO, profit-sharing and employee stock purchase plans, ERISA and other employment-related litigation.