Employee Benefits and Compensation Law
Description
Employee benefits have been much in the news lately: vanishing retirement savings, a seemingly broken health care system, outsized executive bonuses. The one thing all these items share in common is that they are employer provided and as much part of the practice of employee benefit law.
In this course, we will focus on how employers help employees save for retirement, specifically through the use of retirement plans that are qualified under the tax code. We will look briefly at the origin of retirement plans and then delve into detail on the requirements such plans must meet under both the tax code and ERISA (the Employee Retirement Income Security Act).
The course is designed to be a seminar with active participation by all members of the class. The final grade will be based on class participation and a research paper. (Note that instead of one 30 page research paper, students may elect to write 3 shorter 10 page papers.)
- Number of Units: 3
- Course Number: 276