ILRLR 6025 - Employee Benefits: Law, Policy, and Practice

Fall or spring (seven-week session). 2 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with ILRLR 4055.

L. Compa.

Focuses on public and private health insurance and pension plans in the United States (with some additional attention to other employee benefits). We examine these issues in 1) a policy context, since health insurance and pension benefits are hotly contested topics in the public policy arena, and 2) a collective bargaining context, since bargaining over employee benefits present sharp challenges to employer and union negotiators.