Employer Resource Institute Webinar

Monday, February 15, 2010
10:30 a.m. to Noon (Pacific)

Order Option       Price   1. Live Conference       $219       2. Live Conference + CD Recording       $269       3. CD Recording Only       $219

Amid budgetary woes, the California Legislature has authorized a workers' compensation premium assessment (WCPA) to offset Department of Industrial Relations funding cuts.

The temporary premium assessment seeks to stabilize funding for the Division of Workers' Compensation (DWC), the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which enforces the legal requirement for employers to carry workers' comp insurance.

The state has restored programs designed to facilitate the courts' ability to adjudicate workers' comp claims quickly and to improve the overall efficiency of the state's workers' comp system. The cost of restoring those funds comes at a price for - you guessed it - employers.

Join us on Feb. 15 for an in-depth, 90-minute, interactive webinar all about how the WCPA may affect your organization in the coming months. Our experts - a seasoned California workers' compensation attorney and an experienced workers' comp consultant - will explain how the WCPA may affect your organization. You'll learn:

• How this funding source came about in the first place
• What programs will benefit from the assessment
• What type of notice affected entities can expect to receive from the DWC
• How long the assessment will last, and the state-run funds it covers
• What the assessment's sunset provision encompasses, and how long it will last
• The bottom-line cost the assessment will have on California employers

About Your Speakers:

Mark E. Webb is vice president of governmental relations for Employers Direct Insurance Company, California's only specialty direct writer of workers' compensation insurance. Working closely with workers' compensation regulators, policymakers, and advocates in the business community and on organizing labor to maintain the efficient operation of California's multi-billion dollar worker benefit system, Webb provides current and prospective policyholders with the latest news on workers' comp issues. He serves on numerous advisory and legal committees for the California Division of Workers' Compensation, CWCI, CHSWC, WCRI, and the California Chamber of Commerce.

Stuart J. Baron, Esq. is a principal at Stuart Baron & Associates, a Los Alamitos-based law firm focusing exclusively on helping employers manage their employees in an increasingly regulated and risky environment. Assisting clients in controlling workers' comp claims and preventing related disability-discrimination charges, Baron has been on the vanguard of workers' compensation reform since 1988. His related consulting company, Workers' Compensation Claims Control (WCCC), has provided claims-management services to hundreds of employers.

This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). This program is also a California-specific continuing education activity for PHR-CA and SPHR-CA recertification. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCI's criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

The Employer Resource Institute is an approved MCLE Multiple Activity Provider, and this program has been approved for 1.5 hours of MCLE credit by the State Bar of California. For more information, please contact our customer service department at (800) 695-7178.

Bonus Offer

As an additional benefit, you will receive a no-risk trial subscription to Employment Law Compliance for California Supervisors when you register for this webinar (or purchase a CD recording). Each month, you'll receive copies of the current issue to share with your front-line supervisors. If you want to continue to receive the newsletter, simply pay the invoice you will receive in the mail. If you decide the newsletter isn't for you, just write cancel on the invoice and return it. You will owe nothing, and all issues you receive are yours to keep. As with all ERI products, your satisfaction is guaranteed 100%. (Offer good for new subscribers only.)

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A webinar is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office, using a regular telephone and a computer with an Internet connection. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time.

Plus, for one low price you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone.

Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions—either on the phone or via the webinar interface.

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