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DOL Investigations of Employee Benefit Plans: Responding to Enforcement Actions, Audits, and Settlements - Strafford live CLE webinar, November 10, 2021, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EST) - Click here for details and registration
Employer-Sponsored Health Plan Federal Regulation: ACA, COBRA, ADA, GINA, CAA, MHPAEA, Reporting Requirements - Roberta Casper Watson and Dannae Delano, panelists, Strafford, live CLE webinar, November 23, 1:00 - 2:30 PM (EST) - Click here for details and registration
How to Legally Handle Bad Egg Employees - Katherine Brustowicz, panelist, National Business Institute live, online, HR-credit seminar, December 22, 2021, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST) - Register here
DOL Investigations of Employee Benefit Plans: Responding to Enforcement Actions, Audits, and Settlements November 11, 2021
On October 25, the DOL issued a temporary enforcement policy related to Prohibited Transaction Exemption (“PTE”) 2020-02, an exemption for investment advice fiduciaries with respect to employee benefit plans and individual retirement accounts. The exemption became...
RIAs May Face Ticking Time Bomb After SEC Slams a $1.9-billion RIA for Neglecting 'Orphan' Accounts While Charging Fees, a Problem that may be Industrywide - Ari Sonneberg, RIABiz, October 27, 2021
UPDATED October 27, 2021 - Originally published August 13, 2019. There has been a significant new development for employee benefit plan administrators of large plans who opt for a "limited scope audit" by the plan's auditor for Form 5500 reporting of the plan's...
As described in our May 3, 2021 Alert, the Department of Labor’s (“DOL’s") informal guidance left many unanswered questions on cyber breaches involving the theft of assets in a participant’s account, as well as the simple misappropriation of confidential participant...
DOL Drops ‘Bomb’ On Advisors Who Give Advice To IRA Owners - Km Shaw Elliott, InsuranceNewsNet, October 22, 2021
The EEOC has issued Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) on the enforcement of various Equal Employment Opportunity (“EEO”) laws with regard to COVID. These laws include the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the...