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“Clawback Comeback”: DOJ’s New Focus on Clawbacks to Prevent Corporate Crime

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

This new focus on “clawbacks” is intended to give general counsels and chief compliance officers the tools to implement “responsible corporate behavior” and to foster a corporate culture that both deters and punishes risky (and possibly criminal) behavior by top executives.

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[Podcast]: Key ERISA Fee and Investment Litigation Developments and the Impact of Hughes v. Northwestern University

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

Rumeld: Welcome to The Proskauer Benefits Brief: Legal Insight on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. Just for a little bit of context: that’s more cases filed in a two-year period than all other years combined since the surge of these cases began in 2015. Listen to the podcast. . My name is Myron D.

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Inflation and ERISA Penalties: Hand in Hand for 2022

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

The Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 2015 directs the US Department of Labor (DOL) to make annual inflation adjustments to specified Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) violations.

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Overpaid CEOs a Huge Red Flag for Company Stability, Shareholder Advocacy Group Says

HR Digest

For each of As You Sow’s yearly reports dating back to 2015, the shareholder advocacy nonprofit discovered that CEO remuneration does not often connect with prior stock return success, and that instead, companies with the 100 most overpaid CEOs underperformed the equal-weighted average S&P 500 company. .

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Updated Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan Audit Guide

Snell & Wilmer Benefits

In June the Internal Revenue Service released an updated Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Audit Technique Guide. This updated Guide replaces the initial Guide published in 2015.