PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Cost, Care and Captives: A Mid-Size Employer’s Guide to Benefit Trends
Is the Four-Day Workweek Really a Benefit? What’s the Tea in L&E?
Work this Way: An Employment Law Video Podcast | Episode 50: Creating a Competitive Advantage Through Employee Benefits with Connor Shaw of Gallagher
Work this Way: An Employment Law Video Podcast | Episode 49: Building Culture by Investing in People with Silvia King of Southern First Bank
Crafting Effective Flexible Leave Policies for Employers
How Modern Workplaces Navigate Generational Shifts: One-on-One with Jeff Landes
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 46: The 2025 Greenville SHRM Conference with Tyler Clark and Brittany Goforth of GSHRM
California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Labor, Employment, and Benefits
Ensuring Success with Executive Agreements
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Big Changes to Catch-Up Contributions in 2025
OK at Work: Navigating Snow Days, Office Closures, and Remote Work Planning
5 Key Takeaways | IRS Final RMD Rules & Proposed Regulations to Address SECURE 2.0 Act Issues
Holiday Headaches: Avoiding Legal Risks with PTO, Overtime, and Workplace Festivities
Employer Obligations to Accommodate Before Employees Arrive to Work
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - New IRS Guidance on SECURE 2.0 Act Student Loan Employer Contributions
Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - ERISA Forfeiture Litigation
Johnson Case’s Potential Impact on Colleges, NIL, and College Athletics — Highway to NIL
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 26: Compensation Compliance with Joan Moore and Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
Just before its summer recess, the Supreme Court agreed to review whether multiemployer pension funds can impose withdrawal liability based on actuarial assumptions adopted after the relevant plan year. The expected decision...more
Vestwell made headlines today by announcing a new partnership with Amazon’s Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program to offer Pooled Employer Plans (PEPs) to delivery associates. Sounds impressive, right? Let’s slow down. I’ve...more
Fiduciaries must treat plan management as an active compliance obligation to avoid legal exposure, says a Hall Benefits Law practitioner. On April 17, 2025, the US Supreme Court issued a unanimous per curiam opinion in...more
On January 10, 2025, in Spence v. American Airlines, a federal district court in Texas ruled that American Airlines (the company) and the committee overseeing its 401(k) plans (the committee) breached their duty of loyalty...more
Excessive fee cases against plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) have been on the rise for the last decade. ERISA litigation is expanding with novel theories such as forfeiture litigation....more
Builder of Investment Models Deviates From Blueprints Employee’s Rogue Remodeling Costs Builder Plenty - The SEC’s recent order instituting administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings (OIP) against registered...more
Contingent deferred annuities (CDAs) represent an interesting approach to securing lifetime income but have struggled for recognition in the marketplace since their introduction more than a decade ago. Recent developments,...more
Updated Principles of Remuneration - On the 9 October 2024, the Investment Association (‘IA’), a trade body for UK investment managers, published the Principles of Remuneration (the Principles). IA members are...more
Many employer-sponsored defined contributions plans, including 401(k) profit sharing plans and money purchase pension plans include a vesting schedule – a period over which a plan participant earns a nonforfeitable right to...more
The DOL updated its voluntary fiduciary correction program (“VFCP”) which was introduced over 20 years ago to allow plan sponsors to corrected enumerated fiduciary breaches. The amended VFCP now allows for self-correction of...more
Over the years, plan sponsors and administrators have wrestled with the question of what to do with the accounts of participants who left employment years earlier and cannot now be located. ...more
In the aftermath of the 2007-09 global financial crisis, the G20 nations committed to reforming bank remuneration frameworks in response to criticism that excessive risk-taking at banks incentivised by poorly structured pay...more
Section 305 of SECURE 2.0 added rules for self-correcting a new category of retirement plan errors under the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (“ECPRS”). Specifically, Section 305 allows an “eligible inadvertent...more
The Secure Act, passed in 2019 and updated in 2022, made significant changes to the required minimum distribution (RMD) rules applicable to qualified retirement plans, IRAs, 403(b) plans, and other eligible deferred...more
In a defined benefit plan, participants usually accrue a monthly benefit based on a formula that typically considers their last three years’ salary before retirement and years of service with their employer. For example, the...more
ESG – compliance review findings - The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published the findings from its review of how trustees are complying with their wider ESG duties. The review concludes that while 99% of trustees of...more
The Secure 2.0 Act of 2022 authorizes numerous new provisions that employers can choose to include or exclude in the retirement plans they sponsor. Recently, retirement plan vendors (vendors) have been sending communications...more
Executive Summary - Many investment advisers and other financial institutions rely on the Department of Labor’s QPAM Exemption when providing services to, and transacting with, employer-sponsored retirement plans, individual...more
On March 28, 2024, Washington State’s Governor, Jay Inslee, signed into law a bill that creates a new state-run retirement program called “Washington Saves.” Under the program, “covered employers” must give “covered...more
On March 21, Wisconsin Democrat Governor Tony Evers signed into law the country’s third earned wage access (EWA) bill, which recognizes EWA as a new and innovative financial service by creating a distinct license and...more
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a regulatory intervention report outlining how they worked with Capita following a cyber incident last year (see our legal update), and detailing the key steps trustees should take...more
In recent years, earned wage access (EWA) – an innovative technology that enables workers to access their own, already earned wages without having to wait for payday – has rapidly become a table stakes employee benefit. By...more
On November 1, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2023-75, which sets forth the 2024 cost-of-living adjustments affecting dollar limits on benefits and contributions for qualified retirement plans. The...more
In a June 7, 2023 press release, State of Connecticut Comptroller Sean Scanlon applauded the passage of House Bill No. 6930, which aspires to develop best practices for governance structures of municipal retirement plans....more
As any Wall Street litigator knows, in the securities industry, it is typical for brokerage firms to incentivize their employed financial advisers with significant upfront compensation at the beginning of a relationship or...more