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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
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
Last year, we alerted you to the filing of several class action lawsuits alleging that plan fiduciaries violated their duties of prudence and loyalty under Title I of ERISA by using forfeitures to reduce employer...more
Conflicting orders on motions to dismiss from two California courts foreshadow issues for a new theory of ERISA liability. Employers have faced a recent wave of novel ERISA class actions that challenge the reallocation of...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
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
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
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
El 9 de abril de 2021, el Ministerio del Trabajo expidió el Decreto 376 de 2021, mediante el cual se implementaron medidas para realizar el pago de las cotizaciones al Sistema General de Pensiones por los periodos...more
On June 24, 2020, the Government of Alberta issued Order in Council 190/2020 to amend the Employment Pension Plans Regulation (Regulation) to provide additional forms of relief to administrators of Alberta-registered pension...more
Effective May 27, 2020, new Solvency Special Payments Relief Regulations, 2020 issued under the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 provide funding relief to sponsors of federally regulated pension plans with solvency...more
On May 5, 2020, the Registered Plans Directorate (RPD) of the Canada Revenue Agency announced COVID-19 pandemic-related relief and guidance for plan sponsors and administrators....more
On November 20, Republican Senators Charles Grassley and Lamar Alexander – chairmen of the committees with jurisdiction over pensions – jointly released the Multiemployer Pension Recapitalization and Reformation Plan (the...more
Many employers feel it is necessary, as part of a competitive recruitment process, to adopt a tax qualified retirement-savings plan for employees. Here are some forms of tax qualified retirement plans early stage companies...more