Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide
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Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide helps you investigate the pros and cons of offering pension, welfare and other benefits to employees’ domestic partners and walks you through the process of establishing and running a domestic partner benefits program.
With Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide you can:
• Easily determine who should receive benefits and who does not qualify
• Stay up to date on federal, state, and local laws regarding domestic benefits, domestic partnerships, and same-sex marriage
• Avoid potential pitfalls with guidance on taxes, payroll/withholding, HIPAA, and more
• Save time with sample documents, plans, and strategies so you can form the best plan for your company
• Answer any question about challenging benefits arrangements, such as adoption assistance
Major Topics Covered
Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide helps you investigate the pros and cons of offering pension, welfare and other benefits to employees’ domestic partners and guides you through the process of establishing and running a domestic partner benefits program.
This book from the editors of Thompson Information Services addresses such issues as...
- Defining "domestic partner"
- Deciding who should receive domestic partner benefits
- The nuts and bolts of setting up and running a plan
- Tax, payroll/withholding, FMLA, COBRA and HIPAA administrative issues
- Effect of federal, state and local laws and court rulings
- How same-sex marriage relates to domestic partner benefits
This one-of-kind book features a model launch and timeline, model policies, notices, forms and affidavits, as well as real-life examples of what employers are doing. This edition of Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide also provides:
- An updated look at how state laws and state constitutions apply to same-sex marriage, and where it is legal
- An updated section on where partners can enter into civil unions and what those states require
- Updated treatment of challenges to the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act
- An improved Q&A section on the basics of considering, setting up and running a domestic partner benefits
- Updated discussion of benefits available to domestic partners
- Updated sample documents and forms
- A discussion of tax treatment of domestic partner benefits
- A look at the potential costs of providing domestic partner benefits
Format and Frequency
Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer’s Guide is available in eBook format.
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Authors and Editors
Thompson Information Services is the leader in regulatory compliance and guidance since 1972. Thousands of professionals in business, government, law, and academia have relied on Thompson for the most authoritative, timely, and practical guidance available. We offer insight you can trust.