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Pensions: what's new this week? - September 09, 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions....more

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Pensions: What's new this week - July 22 2024

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Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. New Pension Schemes Bill announced - Among the 40 new...more

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Doubling Down in the Second City, Part Two: Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection Issues Final Rules...

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On July 1, 2024, the Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (PLO or the “Ordinance”) took effect. We previously reported on the Ordinance when it was announced in November 2023 noting that, as written, it...more

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July is Still the New January! Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute’s Mid-Year Legislative Report

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Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report!  As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more

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La Reforma Pensional en Colombia

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En este episodio de "A Lo Legal En Par Minutos", nuestro socio Edwin Cortés habla con Diego Acevedo, socio de derecho laboral, sobre la reforma pensional en Colombia. Dicha reforma ha sido aprobada por el Senado y se debate...more

Perkins Coie

March Tip of the Month: Employees May Now Sue Employers for Alleged Violations of the New York City Earned Safe and Sick Leave Law

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In an important change, beginning on March 20, 2024, employees may file lawsuits, including class actions, against their employers for alleged violations of New York City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act (the Sick Leave Law),...more

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Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 37 - March 2024

Senate committee meetings continue under the Gold Dome as this report is published on Wednesday. With the Senate’s requirement that bills pass out of committee before the chamber convenes for Legislative Day 38, legislators...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Gold Dome Report - Legislative Day 31 - March 2024

The Georgia House of Representatives took up a veritable smorgasbord of legislation on Thursday. From the establishment of a license plate commemorating America’s semiquincentennial (SB 369), to allowing lifetime appointment...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Oregon Legislature Changes OFLA and Paid Leave Oregon Rules, Yet Again

In what many employers will regard as a welcome change, on February 27, 2024, the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Bill 1515 (which Governor Tina Kotek is expected to sign into law right away) to eliminate many of the...more

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Gender-Affirming Benefits: Best Practices for Group Health Plans

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Federal legislative and regulatory activity related to employer-sponsored group health plans shows no signs of slowing, particularly with the issuance of interpretive guidance regarding the transparency and surprise-billing...more

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Welcome News: Chicago Amends Paid Leave Ordinance

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In welcome news for employers, the Chicago City Council passed an amendment (the Amendment) to the new Chicago Paid Leave and Paid Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance (the Ordinance), which will delay implementation of paid leave...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 04 December 2023

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: Draft legislation...more

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Pensions: Joint DB & DC trustee agenda update - December 2023

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Welcome to our monthly update on current legal issues for trustees of DB and hybrid pension schemes, designed to help you stay up to date with key developments between trustee meetings, and to support the legal update item on...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 27 November 2023

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: Autumn statement:...more

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Pensions: what's new this week - 13 November 2023

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Welcome to your weekly update from the Allen & Overy Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions. This week we cover the following topics: TPR speech on DC...more

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Illinois Expands Rights and Remedies for Temporary Workers

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Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law HB 2862 (Amendment) on August 4, 2023, which amends the Illinois Day and Labor Services Act (Act) by adding new equal pay obligations and safety and training requirements for employers...more

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The MCAD’s New Guidance on the Massachusetts Parental Leave Act Aims to Provide Clarity On Its Continued Role in Providing...

The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination (the “MCAD”) recently issued updated guidance (here and here) on the Massachusetts Parental Leave Act (“MPLA”), signaling that the MPLA still plays an important role in the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Congressional Leaders Address SECURE 2.0 Act Glitches

The SECURE 2.0 Act made sweeping changes to Internal Revenue Code (Code) and ERISA provisions governing employee benefit plans. In a recent letter to the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, the...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Policy Matters Newsletter - June 2023

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Aaaaaand we're back! As we did around the same time last year, we would like the thank the readers for y’all’s patience during our summer hiatus to allow our authors to take a short break to get some Vitamin D and replenish....more

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Oregon Legislature Enacts Changes to Better Coordinate the Oregon Family Leave Act and Paid Leave Oregon

The ink is not yet dry on Senate Bill 999, drafted to attempt coordination of the Oregon Family Leave Act (OFLA) and the Oregon Paid Family and Medical Leave Act also called “Paid Leave Oregon” (PLO). On June 7, Senate Bill...more

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California Considering Expanding Paid Sick Leave to Seven Paid Days

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Earlier this week, the California Senate Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement Committee approved SB 616. This bill now moves on for consideration by the Senate appropriations committee. SB 616, sponsored by California...more

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Latest Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly: The Labor and Public Employees Committee Has Spoken (Part Four-Yes,...

We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee.  In addition to the bills that we have already summarized, here is a...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Winter 2023 Employment and Benefits Updates

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SECURE 2.0 Act - As part of a large year-end piece of legislation, the provisions known as SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) were enacted into law. SECURE 2.0 represents a broadly bipartisan piece of legislation that...more

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The SECURE Act 2.0: The Most Impactful Provisions (#3–Extension of RMD Start Ages)

The President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which included SECURE Act 2.0, on December 29, 2022. SECURE Act 2.0 has over 90 provisions, some major and some minor; some mandatory and some optional; some...more

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Important Changes to Massachusetts Paid Family Medical Leave Law Go Into Effect January 1, 2023

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Several important updates to the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave law (“PFML”) go into effect on January 1, 2023. Background on the PFML - Beginning in 2021, the PFML began providing paid family and medical...more

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