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En el marco de la implementación de la Reforma de Pensiones contenida en la Ley N°21.735, el 1 de agosto se dará inicio a la contribución obligatoria de empleadores al nuevo sistema mixto, incrementando en 1% la cotización...more
On August 1, 2025, employers in Chile will be required to make mandatory contributions to the country’s new mixed pension system, as established under Law No. 21.735. This marks the initial phase of broader pension reform,...more
One topic that frequently arises is whether a qualified governmental plan, under Internal Revenue Code (Code) Section 401(a), may allow an employee the election on whether to contribute at different pretax employee...more
Many companies are scrambling to quickly assess how to reduce the business impact of the upheaval to U.S. manufacturing and trading with the recent onslaught of tariffs threatened or imposed by the United States and the...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
Canada’s federal government announced it intends to remove the “30 percent rule” for investments by domestic pension funds in Canadian entities. The change is part of the Fall Economic Statement that was released on December...more
On March 29, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued its decision in Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund v. Event Media, Inc. In a matter of first impression for...more
Pension-Linked Emergency Savings Accounts (“PLESAs”) are a special retirement plan feature created under SECURE ACT 2.0. PLESAs were first permitted to be made available to participants as of January 1, 2024. PLESAs, which...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more
In a classic man-bites-dog turnaround, a federal appeals court ordered a Teamsters pension fund to return approximately $2 million in withdrawal liability payments to an employer that had stopped contributing in 2005. The...more
In the final quarter of 2023, South Africa issued guidance on the new two-pot retirement system, Peru launched a new holiday starting in 2024, Singapore doubled its paid paternity leave, and Costa Rica reformed its pension...more
All Canadian employers other than those in Quebec are required to: Deduct Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contributions from their employees’ pensionable earnings if the employee meets certain conditions; Contribute an...more
Introduction The General Pension and Social Security Authority (GPSSA) recently introduced a significant change in the pension landscape through Federal Decree-Law No. 57 of 2023 on Pension and Social Security. This legal...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The IRS just announced the 2024 annual limits that will apply to tax-qualified retirement plans. For a third year in a row, the IRS increased the annual limits, allowing participants to save even more in...more
Provident funds, or government-administered retirement funds, were introduced as a form of “social protection” to alleviate poverty at the time of retirement. Most social programs at the time did not provide enough to cover...more
On June 22, 2023, Bill C-47 received royal assent, implementing a variety of amendments to the Income Tax Act (Canada) (ITA) and its regulations (ITA Regulations) tabled as part of the 2023 Federal Budget. As we previously...more
For decades, it was common for employers to maintain employer-funded defined benefit pension plans (“DB Plans” or “Plans”) to provide retirement benefits to their employees. In recent years, DB Plans have become increasingly...more
Warner’s Employee Benefits Practice Group is pleased to present a webinar series on significant new retirement plan legislation, the SECURE Act 2.0. While we expect implementing the new law to take several years, some...more
In a prior alert, we detailed how the Interim Final Rule (IFR) from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) regarding the special financial assistance (SFA) provided under American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) would...more
Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales hat den Referentenentwurf zur Anpassung der Grenzwerte für die Sozialversicherung vorgelegt. Nachdem die Werte im vergangenen Jahr stagnierten, steigen die Werte für 2023 wieder...more
What You Need to Know About Draft Amendments to the Federal Income Tax Act and Regulations - On February 4, 2022, the Canadian federal government released draft legislation to implement a variety of proposed tax measures,...more
On January 31, 2022, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the lower court’s finding that surcharges imposed by the Pension Protection Act (“PPA”) are excluded from the determination of an employer’s “highest contribution rate” for...more
For employers who contribute to financially-troubled multiemployer pension plans (multiemployer plans), a lot has changed in the last six months. In March, Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP) which...more
In the clamor that surrounded the current administration’s adoption of the American Rescue Act of 2021 (ARPA), quietly tucked in as Subtitle H is the Butch Lewis Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act of 2021 (Butch Lewis). Butch...more