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Retirees experiencing changes in post-employment benefits due to disability may not be able claim disability discrimination, following a recent fractured U.S. Supreme Court decision....more
Last week in a 7-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act does not apply to claims by a former employee that changes to her retiree medical benefits discriminated against her...more
In Stanley v. City of Sanford (June 20, 2025), the United States Supreme Court considered whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) protects former employees against disability discrimination with respect to...more
The Supreme Court of the United States recently heard oral arguments in a case that could broadly impact employers’ retiree benefits and liability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The court will decide whether...more
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
Employers that sponsor 401(k) or 403(b) plans should be aware of eligibility and participation rules for their long-term, part-time (LTPT) employees. Historically, such plans could exclude employees who worked fewer than...more
In this series of articles, we explore the implications of the long-term, part-time employee rules under the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and the impact those rules have on employers and their workforces. Under the SECURE...more
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
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
A family member just went through the process of locating retirement plan accounts at two different employers. The employers changed providers and the million dollars of retirement assets were just sitting there. These were...more
I was an employee once and that’s why I don’t have employees. If I did have employees and they left my employment, I’d like all strings to be cut. Some larger plans disagree....more
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
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
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, enacted on December 27, 2020 (the CAA), includes limited relief pertaining to the partial termination of a qualified retirement plan that may have been inadvertently triggered by...more
With COVID and massive layoffs, we certainly have a partial termination problem to consider. If an employer has a turnover rate of 20% or more, that counts as a partial termination, and employers have to fully vest employees...more
When people ask my wife what I do for a living, she says she doesn’t know. Half the time I think she’s joking and half the time I think she’s serious that she doesn’t know what an ERISA attorney does. The same thing goes with...more
With everything 401(k) related being online, cyber security is important for plan sponsors, plan providers, and plan participants. A former employee of Abbott Laboratories sued the company and its record keeper, Alight...more
Two former employees of Trader Joe’s have sued the company alleging breaches of fiduciary duty in the management of the company’s 401(k) plan....more
Do you provide terminated employees with information regarding their employee benefits upon termination? If not, consider doing so now—especially if you typically provide a lot of your benefits information on your intranet...more
A federal district court judge in Washington D.C. dismissed an ERISA fiduciary breach suit brought by a former employee of George Washington University (“GW”), finding the former employee lacked standing to sue. The...more
When a participant of yours leaves or is let go, I think one of the most important things you can do is make sure they roll out their assets from your retirement plan....more
How 401(k) Plan Sponsors Should Deal With Plan Enrollment/Education Meetings. These meetings shouldn't be forgotten. Plan sponsors are constantly inundated by articles and plan providers talking about issues dealing...more
Recently, the US District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit brought by former Georgetown employees under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) over fees and...more
Bass, Berry & Sims attorney Chris Lazarini analyzed the putative class active brought against T. Rowe Price Group by current and former employees alleging the firm breached its fiduciary duty by favoring its own financial...more
Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) authorizes a type of retirement plan that can be sponsored by certain tax exempt organizations (e.g., a Code Section 501(c)(3) organization,...more