UI 101: Unemployment Insurance Overview

This dynamic seminar will give you clear answers to your toughest questions. You’ll learn the best practices on how to manage unemployment issues in your workplace and gain the knowledge you need to deal with those issues quickly and decisively. The presenters will explain how your unemployment insurance (UI) tax rates are determined, how an applicant’s eligibility for unemployment benefits can affect your budget, what you can do to prevent unnecessary charges to your UI account and much, much more.

You will learn:

¨ Are your Independent Contractors really independent?

¨ Covered versus non-covered unemployment: Who’s in, who’s out and why?

¨ Do family membersworking in my business need UI coverage?

¨ Tips to help you avoid common mistakesin submitting quarterly wage detail reports.

¨ The costly mistakes many managers makewhen they file an appeal or raise an issue and how to avoid them.

¨ The most important new unemployment legislationand how it could affect your workplace.

¨ Step-by-step instructions for using the Employer Online Self-Service System to respond to UI benefit issues and why you need to know how it functions.

¨ They’ve been bad; you must be good:important follow-up you must do once you’ve dismissed a problem worker — you’ll win more dismissal decisions with the information presented!

¨ How detailed, accurate documentation can save your company money in the long run.

Who should attend:Human resource professionals, business owners and managers, attorneys, accountants, consultants and others who are interested in learning about their rights and responsibilities under the Minnesota UI Law. This seminar is designed to satisfy the needs of the relatively inexperienced HR employee, the veteran staffer who wants to brush up on some critical knowledge, or the business owner who simply wants more information about UI regulations.

About The Presenters: Gary Johnson, Employer / Agent Liaison — Gary has over 24 years of experience in the complex discipline of Unemployment Insurance; seven years of which working as a Tax Auditor and the past seventeen-plus years in the areas of communication, education and electronic commerce as a Project Coordinator and Employer/Agent Liaison with the Unemployment Insurance Program at the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. Gary also coordinates the Minnesota Business Tax Education Partnership.

Wayne Johnson, Benefit Program Specialist — Wayne has a degree in Secondary Education, but discovered early on that he likes teenagers in smaller doses. He has been with the Unemployment Insurance Program since 1980 and now works mostly as a quality auditor and writer. Each year he reviews 400 adjudicator decisions and 80 appeal hearings and decisions issued by unemployment law judges, to ensure that Minnesota is meeting federal standards for sufficiency of fact finding and proper application of the Minnesota UI Law.