by Girish Anand | May 14, 2018 | DOL, NLRB, OSHA
The Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, released this past week, reveals a compendium of actions — and reversals of actions — that the Trump administration’s various agencies hope to carry out in the coming months, not the least of...
by Girish Anand | May 10, 2018 | DOL, Overtime Rules
In its latest regulatory agenda, the Department of Labor (DOL) confirms that its effort at creating a new overtime rule to replace the one now under a nationwide injunction is being pushed into 2019 from its original October 2018 deadline. In late November 2015, a...
by Girish Anand | May 7, 2018 | DOL
Today, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) concerning the fiduciary — or conflict of interest — rule vacated by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March and becoming effective this week. The department had...
by Girish Anand | May 3, 2018 | DOL, OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will hold its annual National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls May 7-11. The event encourages companies and workers to pause during the workday for topical discussions, safety demonstrations, and training in...
by Girish Anand | Apr 19, 2018 | DOL, SEC
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday, April 18, voted 4-1 on a proposed fiduciary rule that sets standards of conduct, additional disclosure requirements and restrictions on advisor/broker titles. The vote comes a month after the U.S. 5th Circuit...
by Girish Anand | Apr 16, 2018 | DOL, EBSA, ERISA
The Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) in 2017 upped its recovery of missing employee retirement contributions (including fines) to $1.1 billion from $777.5 the year before. At the same time, due in great part to automation, the ERISA-enforcement wing of...
