Employee Benefits
Contact: Thomas H. Bergh
As an employer, you need to look out for your employees' interests as well as your own. Varnum's employee benefits attorneys are prepared to help you do both. We help clients design, draft, implement and administer a wide variety of employee benefit and retirement programs. We also counsel employers on the impact of mergers, acquisitions and liquidations on employee benefits plans.
Our expertise covers a variety of programs, including:
- Pension plans
- Profit sharing plans
- Retirement savings or 401(k) plans
- Employee stock ownership plans
- Target benefit and other money purchase pension plans
- Tax sheltered annuity plans
- Health care plans -- traditional insured programs, self-insured programs and managed care (HMOs, PPOs and other forms of managed care)
- Post-retirement medical benefits
- Cafeteria and flexible benefits plans
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Non-qualified deferred compensation plans and other
executive compensation programs
Who are our clients? Public- and private-sector employers, third-party administrators and trustees of single and multi-employer pension and health care plans, among others. We also counsel individuals who are planning for retirement and pursuing their rights under employee benefit plans.