Benefits PUG is once again planning their Spring meeting in conjunction with COLLABORATE 08. Held in Denver, Colo., COLLABORATE 08 runs from April 13 to April 17, 2008. The Benefits PUG meeting will be on Thursday and Friday following COLLABORATE 08, on April 17-18.

The meeting will be held at the new Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Denver, located across from the Colorado Convention Center. 

Call for Presentations
Please submit your presentations to mvandermolen@nevp.com for consideration.

Registration Options
PUG Meeting and COLLABORATE 08:  Online registration for COLLABORATE 08 has ended. You may still register onsite, and let them know you're also going to be attending the Benefits PUG meeting for a discounted rate of $150.

PUG Meeting Only: Click here to enter this separate registration, rate to attend is $325.

Agenda
Thursday, April 17, 2008

12:00 PM  -  1:30 PM       Registration / Lunch Buffet 
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room
1:30 PM  -  2:45 PM         Opening Session with Networking Activities
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room
2:45 PM  -  3:00 PM         Break
3:00 PM  -  4:00 PM         PUG Breakout Sessions
                                      Benefit Administration and Multiple Jobs: Open Forum, Michelle del Giudice
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room
                                      eBenefits and Benefit Administration, Ropes & Gray
                                      Platinum Room
5:30 PM  -  7:00 PM         Evening Reception
                                      Meeting Room Foyer

Friday, April 18, 2008

8:00 AM  -  8:45 AM         Continental Breakfast
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room
8:45 AM  -  10:00 AM       Benefits 9.0 - Kathi Nelson and Sharon Miyakado, Oracle
                                      Platinum
10:00 AM  -  10:15 AM     Break
10:15 AM  -  12:00 PM     Ask The Experts - Kathi Nelson and Sharon Miyakado, Oracle
                                      Platinum
12:00 PM  -  1:30 PM       Lunch Buffet
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room
1:30 PM  -  2:30 PM         PUG Breakout Sessions
                                      Successes and Challenges of implementing and Managing a
                                      Wellness Program, Keith Anderson
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room
                                      How We Saved Over $20,000 in Costs for Open Enrollment, Greg Frueh
                                      Platinum
2:30 PM  -  2:45 PM         Break
2:45 PM  -  3:45 PM         Enhancement Review / Other Business
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room
3:45 PM  -  4:00 PM         Closing Session / Remarks
                                      Titanium/Zirconium Room

Breakout Sessions
Successes and Challenges of Implementing and Managing a Wellness Program
Meijer Stores, a large Midwestern retailer with approx 60,000 team members was seeking to implement a Health Risk Assessment/Wellness program that had monetary rewards/penalties attached to it. Since there is an on-going participation requirement we need to track this and administer it accordingly throughout the year.  The process was complicated by the need to work with several health providers, many of which had different Health Risk Assessment processes and methods to report the results back to Meijer. With nearly 30,000 team members enrolled in a health care plan, the logistics to collect the results and administer them properly is a daunting task. We used a combination of delivered and customized Peoplesoft processes to manage this.  We’ll discuss our successes, challenges, and the lessons learned during this process.

Presented by Keith Anderson
HRSS Systems
Meijer Inc.

Benefit Administration and Multiple Jobs: Open Forum
Does your company or institution have employees in multiple jobs with multiple eligibility rules? This forum will be your chance to discuss issues with other institutions who have the same day to day issues with benefits administration and multiple job processing as you do.  We want to hear how you have been successful in managing multiple job eligibility (if you have) or how it is causing you many headaches. 

Host: Michelle del Giudice
Senior Associate Director
Center for Human Resources
Pepperdine University

How we saved over $20,000 in costs for Open Enrollment
• Savings of over $5.00 per associate for Open Enrollment
• Process we were doing for years
• Costs that were incurred the “Old Way”
• New Process to distribute all Open Enrollment Information
• New and better communication
• Follow up with confirmations in a better way
• How we handled the associates at manufacturing plants
• Other benefits of new process

Presented by Greg Frueh
Manager HR Systems
The Standard Register Company

Enhancement Requests
All the enhancement suggestions from the last conference have been compiled and loaded into the Quest Enhancement request page. Benefits PUG is working with Quest to schedule a webinar training session to review how the tool works, which will enable you to submit additional requests and comment on the ones already submitted. Please take a look at the Benefits PUG enhancements and add comments if you have more detail to include, or you can also vote if you are a Quest Member.

Oracle Pilot Group
Benefits PUG has been asked to participate in a pilot discussion group forum via Oracle. If you have an Oracle Username and Password, you can view the site at https://mix.oracle.com prior to release to the general public.

Call for Board Members
Are you interested in becoming involved with the Benefits PUG as a board member? If so, please let us know.

President - Maria VanderMolen (Mvandermolen@nevp.com)
Treasurer - Eva Lawson (ELAWSON@netbsa.org)
Membership - Nancy Massel (nanmass@yahoo.com)
Enhancement Coordinator - Evelyn Trummer (ETrummer@Limitedbrands.com)
Board Member - Anne Bates (anne.bates@WORKSTRATEGY.com)
Board Member - Laura Ruston (laura.a.ruston@us.hsbc.com)