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Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act

A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, September 26, 2025

or call 1-800-926-7926

This CLE webinar will provide employee benefits and executive compensation counsel guidance on applicable rule changes under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). The panel will discuss key employee benefits and executive compensation provisions and their impact on plan design and compensation arrangements, as well as next steps for employers, attorneys, and advisers.

Description

On July 4, 2025, the OBBBA was signed into law, enacting significant changes that affect employee benefits and executive compensation. Employers and counsel must understand the impact of the new legislation on current benefit arrangements and identify potential opportunities for new benefits and executive compensation arrangements.

The OBBBA provides several provisions impacting employee benefits covering allowable deductions for tips under certain circumstances, deductions for overtime compensation with limitations, changes to HSA and HRA requirements, and other key provisions. Counsel must be able to review current benefit plans and determine how the bill impacts the administration of those plans and what opportunities may be available.

As to executive compensation arrangements, the new bill includes provisions that broaden the application of the aggregation rules under Section 162(m) for deductions for employee compensation, the excise tax for employee compensation of tax-exempt organizations, and other key provisions.

Listen as our panel discusses key employee benefits and executive compensation provisions under the OBBBA and their impact on plan design and compensation arrangements, as well as next steps for employers, attorneys, and advisers.

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Outline

  1. Employee benefits provisions
    1. Deductions for tips
    2. Deductions for overtime compensation
    3. HSAs and HRAs
    4. Tuition and student loans reimbursements
    5. Other provisions impacting benefits
  2. Executive compensation provisions
    1. Section 162(m)
    2. Excise tax on tax-exempt organizations
    3. Alternative minimum tax exemption
  3. Next steps for employees and administrators

Benefits

The panel will discuss these and other key issues:

  • What are the key provisions impacting employee benefits?
  • How does the new bill affect executive compensation?
  • What deductions are available?
  • What is the impact on tax-exempt organizations?
  • What are the next steps for employees and administrators?

Faculty

August, Hillary
Hillary E. August

Partner
Mayer Brown

Ms. August helps sponsors of employee benefit plans to meet complex statutory requirements in addition to Internal...  |  Read More

Liebl, Ryan
Ryan J. Liebl

Partner
Mayer Brown

Mr. Liebl focuses his practice on advising public and private companies and individual executives on executive...  |  Read More

Vasconcellos, Stephanie
Stephanie B. Vasconcellos

Partner
Mayer Brown

Ms. Vasconcellos is a Chambers-ranked attorney with nearly twenty years of experience helping clients navigate...  |  Read More

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