Tag: Department of Labor (DOL)

The Department of Labor addressed whether employers’ contributions were a workplace benefit, particularly for employees’ children.

Fees remain a concern with alternative assets, but experts say even modest gains could compound meaningfully over a worker’s career.

There is a sharp divide about how far plan fiduciaries should be allowed to go when considering alternative investments.

Industry experts discussed the Department of Labor’s shifting focus from litigation to issuing fiduciary processes during the 2026 PLANSPONSOR National...

From a restored five-part fiduciary test to reducing ‘meritless’ litigation, the head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration defended his...

Department of Labor attorneys requested that the appeals courts affirm previous decisions to dismiss claims of fiduciary breach under the...

The potential elimination of Job Corps, the department’s career training program, was a major flashpoint.

An ERISA lawyer shares how plan fiduciaries can make sense of the plethora of retirement income solutions.

The SECURE 2.0 Act required defined contribution plans to provide at least one paper pension benefit statement each calendar year.

Honeywell International Inc. and Siemens Corp. gave the Department of Labor 5 of their allotted 15 minutes of oral argument...

The Department of Labor previously filed an amicus brief supporting the defendants in the case, Hutchins v. HP Inc.

As the Department of Labor publishes comments on its proposed rule on alternative investments in defined contribution plans, industry leaders...

Chavez-DeRemer, the third Trump Cabinet member to depart this year, will reportedly take a job in the private sector.

Daniel Aronowitz told lawmakers his agency remains focused on efficient enforcement and reducing litigation that he said had ‘stifled innovation...

More than a year has passed since the council last met; all past members’ terms have ended or have been terminated.

Sub-regulatory guidance will be the agency’s focus, rather than ‘regulating by enforcement.’

Courts are not required to treat the Department of Labor’s six-factor test for plan fiduciaries as anything more than one...

Among surveyed advisers, 70% said they believe more clients will invest in private markets over the next three years.

The years-long legal battle that has already drawn in the Department of Labor and shifted partly into arbitration.

The Department of Labor could lose one-fourth of its budget and more than 2,000 full-time employees.