Employment Law

Legal Update

Presented by Bob Simandl 
Simandl Law Group, S.C.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

***Note Change of Venue***

Ives Grove County Complex located across from Ives Grove Golf Course and across the road from Hwy 20 Park & Ride

On January 20, 2015 Robert J. Simandl, of the boutique HR Law Firm the Simandl Law Group, S.C., will discuss with the attendees the operational and legal obligations that must now be addressed by employers as a result of the recognition of same-sex marriage.  Bob will be addressing the following:

•  Updating Company policies, as well as health and welfare plans, so that the definition of spouse does not exclude legally-married same-sex spouses. 
•  Policy/procedure adjustments that need to be considered and implications for opposite sex marriages.
•  Domestic partner status and factors for consideration in policy application.
•  WFMLA leave and available leave to employees in a same-sex relationship:
     (1) unregistered domestic partners;
     (2) registered domestic partners; and
     (3) same-sex spouses.
•  Wisconsin income tax for health coverage benefits for same-sex spouses.
•  The inclusion of same-sex spouses in risk assessments and in determining a new premiums for health care costs.

Please bring any questions and concerns you may have to this presentation.

Robert J. Simandl founding member and principal at Simandl Law Group, S.C., has over 25 years of experience advising clients on a wide range of employee benefit, labor and employment law issues. This experience enables Mr. Simandl to advise clients on human resources (HR) law issues taking into consideration all areas of opportunity and vulnerability, including the litigation of HR law-based claims. He has extensive experience in advising employers in employee benefit plan design, issues associated with ill and injured workers, labor negotiations and maintaining union-free status, and multi-employer health and welfare and pension plan vulnerability and compliance.