PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - DOL Updates ERISA Electronic Disclosure Guidelines
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Buried in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which the U.S. Senate passed earlier this year, is a provision that, if enacted, will eliminate exemptions relied upon by insiders of dual-listed Canadian...more
A dynamic look at how policing is progressing in Canada. From the national rollout of Body Worn Cameras and the implementation of DEMS to support it, from amendments to provincial Police Act and firearms legislations to the...more
Exceeding Corporate Client Expectations - The first session of the conference, moderated by Richard Clark from CloudNine, focused on introducing new ways of deepening the relationship between corporate in-house and outside...more
On March 7, 2023, in Dakota Powell vs. Prime Comms Retail LLC, the New Jersey Appellate Division ruled that a former employee must arbitrate her claims of race discrimination, rather than pursue them in court due to her...more
Cabo Concepts Ltd v MGA Entertainments (UK) Ltd & Another has caused much agitation among litigators and e-disclosure professionals. Just three weeks before the start of the trial in this case, the defendants informed the...more
On August 11, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a notice and request for comment in the Federal Register on its information collection initiative, “Electronic Disclosure on Mobile Devices.” The CFPB...more
Your third-party administrator (TPA) might be asking for the work email addresses and you’re wondering why? Don’t worry that they’re selling products and services. The email addresses are preparation of your TPA getting into...more
The Department of Labor recently issued a new rule providing an additional safe harbor for electronic disclosure of pension plan notices effective July 27, 2020. Prior to the new rule, the DOL’s only safe harbor for...more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The Department of Labor (DOL) published final regulations that make significant strides in reducing barriers to the electronic delivery of a wide array of retirement plan disclosures. Specifically, the...more
The DOL recently provided retirement plans with a new method to comply electronically with certain participant disclosure and notice requirements. See our blog post outlining the new DOL rule. This new method adds to the...more
On July 27, 2020, a new rule went live, making it easier for retirement plans to communicate with participants electronically. This new rule modernized an existing rule that was becoming obsolete....more
On May 21, 2020, the Department of Labor (the “DOL”) announced a final rule establishing a new electronic disclosure safe harbor. The new safe harbor permits retirement plan administrators to deliver certain plan documents by...more
It’s great that the Department of Labor (DOL) has finally embraced the electronic disclosure of important ERISA notices. It took them a long time, but when your business is trying to protect participant rights, this is what...more
On May 27, the DOL issued final regulations that provide a safe harbor for electronic disclosures to employees. Although the regulations don’t become effective until 60 days later (on July 27, 2020), they may be relied upon...more
The Internal Revenue Code (the Code) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) set forth numerous disclosure, notice and election requirements for employee benefit plans. These communications can involve...more
On May 21, 2020 the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a new rule creating a voluntary safe harbor for retirement plan administrators who prefer to provide ERISA-mandated retirement plan information and disclosures to...more
The Department of Labor (DOL) has finally issued final regulations providing a new “notice and access” safe harbor for retirement plans to furnish required disclosures by email or other electronic ways to plan participants...more
On the latest episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt discusses the Department of Labor’s long-awaited updates to the ERISA electronic disclosure guidelines....more
On May 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule providing a new “notice and access” safe harbor for retirement plan fiduciaries to distribute ERISA required disclosures electronically (Final Rule). The...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to find new ways to work through digital technology. Now, more than ever, an enormous percentage of our communications occur over the phone and online. The Department of Labor’s recent...more
Each year, Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute provides its “July is the New January” report on labor and employment laws that become effective in the middle of the year. In 2019, we reported on scores of new laws that took...more
Embracing 21st century technology, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently published a final rule that provides a new safe harbor for electronic distribution of disclosures to retirement plan participants and...more
On May 21, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a new safe harbor rule that will allow plan sponsors, by default, to post retirement plan disclosures online or deliver them to participants by email in...more
On June 3, 2020, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a statement announcing temporary supervisory and enforcement flexibility during the COVID-19 pandemic for credit card issuers regarding electronic...more
On May 27, 2020, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) published a Final Rule that establishes an alternative “safe harbor” method by which retirement plan administrators can provide participant disclosures and notices...more