As a busy benefits professional or HR professional who has responsibility for employee benefits, knowing you have a million responsibilities on a daily basis, which benefit initiatives should move to the top of your 2015/16 "to do" list and why? Using the 5th edition of the ABC\\'s of Employee Benefits (published annually in the national benefits magazine, Employee Benefits News) as the basis, please join Ed Bray as he offers up over 15 key legal and practical employee benefit considerations to help you keep your company competitive, compliant, and a cut above the rest! He not only understands the legal issues associated with this new world of employee benefits (as he provides HR and employee benefits consulting and compliance support to employers of various sizes across California) but can appreciate what you do on a daily basis as he walked in your shoes for over 15 years in HR roles at the Irvine Company, Hawaiian Airlines, and First American Corporation.