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Knock Knock, Is Anyone Home? Do You Know Where Your “Missing” Retirement Plan Participants Are?

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In the laundry list of retirement plan administrative and operational requirements, plan sponsors may sometimes overlook their obligations with respect to terminated vested employees. Even though these individuals have left...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

The problem with former employees

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I always say that the reason I don’t have employees is I was an employee once too. My joke about employee-employer relations is that no employer ever thinks they pay their employees too little and no employee thinks they get...more

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The former employee has an axe to grind

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Someone I know was let go during COVID in April 2020. Thankfully, they were reemployed rather quickly since they had an outstanding job offer that they didn’t reject....more

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Hell hath no fury than a former employee scorned

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I always say that the reason I don’t have employees is I was once an employee too. I was never totally happy with pay and benefits and I don’t know if I ever could be totally satisfied where I worked. I was a good employee,...more

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The former employees can be a huge problem

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In terms of issues over retirement plans for the past 22 years, the two most treacherous investigations that I went through with the Department of Labor (DOL) over the plans sponsored by clients, simply started by a complaint...more

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Third Circuit Deepens Circuit Split Over Test for “Top Hat” Status Under ERISA

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A Third Circuit decision, Sikora v. UPMC, 876 F.3d 110 (3d Cir. 2017), deepens a circuit split over whether a participant’s bargaining power is relevant to determining whether a plan qualifies for “top hat” status under...more

Snell & Wilmer

Missing Participants – Out of Sight Out of Mind?

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Imagine it’s March 31 and you are a retirement plan administrator. You have a participant who terminated employment 15 years ago. He turned 70½ last year and now you owe him his first required minimum distribution from the...more

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