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DOL – New Electronic Disclosure Guidance for Pension Plans under ERISA

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Citing their desire to comply with Executive Order 13847 (08/31/2018) which affirmed the Federal Government’s policy to expand access to workplace retirement plans for American Workers—Federal Regulators understand that complex regulations are a hurdle and a burden for Employers, and that more needs to be done to reduce those burdens.

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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety are not keeping pace. Extracting provincial data from the same series, British Columbia has seen a massive shift in the employment of workers age 65 and older: The monthly unadjusted BC employment rate of 65- to 69-year-olds now routinely exceeds 35% More than a third of males (36.2%

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Over time, savings may be depleted, debts incurred, and their health and welfare diminished—furthering the burden of their original work-related injuries. No COLA was payable in January 2010, January 2011, or in January 2016. Social Security: Cost-of-Living Adjustments , Congressional Research Service, Updated November 19, 2018.