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Workplace Law Update: 10 Essential Items on Your August 2025 To-Do List

Fisher Phillips on 8/4/2025

Here are the top ten items you should tackle in August, based on the latest workplace law developments and upcoming critical compliance dates...more

Cybersecurity is an important concern as a plan provider

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C. on 7/22/2025

Without fail, every single day—like clockwork—I get a handful of emails trying to pry their way into my digital life. Sometimes it’s an alleged Amazon receipt I never made, sometimes a fake Dropbox notice, and sometimes it’s...more

DOL Echoes Employee Benefits and Cybersecurity Best Practices

Foster Swift Collins & Smith on 10/3/2024

On April 14, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Employee Benefits Security Administration (“EBSA”) issued its first cybersecurity best practices guidance for retirement plans. The EBSA guidance was highly...more

TPR Report: Key Steps Trustees Should Take if a Cyber Security Incident Occurs

Mayer Brown on 2/14/2024

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

Preparing for 2024: Encore to 2023’s Cyber and Privacy Extravaganza

Carlton Fields on 1/18/2024

Step right up as we discuss some of 2023’s most notable cybersecurity and privacy regulatory and litigation developments and tips for keeping your program flying high. Regulatory Activity New regulatory requirements now in...more

Podcast: Cybersecurity Risk Management for Pension Plan Administrators: Tips for Staying Ahead of the Hackers

Nossaman LLP on 10/6/2023

With recent well-publicized data breaches impacting pension systems and their retirees nationally, as well as increased Department of Labor scrutiny surrounding cybersecurity policies and procedures implemented by ERISA...more

Alight Solutions Must Comply with Subpoena Issued by DOL in Cybersecurity Incident Investigation

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 8/22/2022

A subpoena was issued to Alight Solutions by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for documents related to a cybersecurity breach that potentially resulted in Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) violations. Alight...more

District Court Enforces DOL Investigative Subpoena Against Plan Service Provider Concerning Alleged Cybersecurity Breaches

Robinson+Cole ERISA Claim Defense Blog on 11/24/2021

A federal District Court judge in Illinois sided with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in ordering Alight Solutions, LLC, an ERISA plan services provider, to comply with an administrative subpoena seeking documents...more

Department of Labor Announces Cybersecurity Guidance for ERISA Retirement Plans

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/28/2021

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced its first cybersecurity guidance for retirement plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of...more

Cybersecurity: A Plan Sponsor Obligation

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 1/29/2021

A recently filed lawsuit against a trust company serving as a 401(k) plan trustee, the second of its kind in the last few months, highlights the need for plan sponsor diligence in protecting participant data and accounts in...more

BOLO: Cyber Attacks Against Retirement Plan Accounts

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 4/23/2020

Employer-sponsored retirement plans have long been targets for cybercriminals. Employers should be on the lookout as the COVID-19 pandemic has expanded the types and likelihood of potential cyber attacks against retirement...more

Retirement Plan Cybersecurity: Don't Assume Outsourced Administration Is Duty Free

Morgan Lewis on 12/2/2019

For years, there has been a persistent trend toward outsourcing retirement plan recordkeeping and other administrative responsibilities. Although historically more prevalent for defined contribution plans, this outsourcing...more

Could This Be Your Retirement Plan?

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 4/8/2019

As reported by CBC, B.C. Pension Corporation announced a data breach involving pension plan records after discovering a box containing microfiche could not be found following a recent office move. The box contained personal...more

October 2018: The Top 14 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 11/12/2018

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): action plan for pension scheme trustees - (revised March 2018)

Hogan Lovells on 3/12/2018

The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will apply directly in the UK from 25 May 2018, and will make some fundamental changes to the current requirements surrounding data protection. Key areas of change...more

Cybersecurity Risks to Employee Benefit Plans - Are You Prepared?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 12/22/2017

Unless you’ve been living on a remote mountaintop or inside a cave for the past 10 years, chances are good you’ve either been affected by a cybersecurity breach or know someone who has. Among many other businesses, recent...more

A Time to Remember that Employer-Provider Data Breach Benefits are not Taxable

Snell & Wilmer on 10/9/2017

Hardly a week goes by without another announcement of a high-profile data security breach. The list of data breaches impacting high-profile employers and their employees just in 2017 is long...more

Retirement Plans Incur Data Breaches; ERISA Council Addresses Cyber Risks

McGuireWoods LLP on 11/30/2016

Until relatively recently, retirement plans have not made the news as targets of data breaches. This is somewhat surprising, given the wealth of participants’ personal data stored online by these plans. This past summer,...more

Food and Beverage Law Update: August 2016

Holland & Knight LLP on 8/2/2016

When food and beverage companies think of their largest risks, data breaches have not historically come to mind, but this is changing because of reports in the past few months of major breaches by companies such as Noodles &...more

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