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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Nov. 11, 2025
"[E]mployers will have to provide a minimum of 32 hours of unpaid safe/sick time to new employees upon hire and to all employees at the start of each calendar year.... [T]he amendments broaden the permissible reasons for employees to use safe/sick leave under ESSTA.... [T]he amendments codify changes to ESSTA Rules ... to provide employees with 20 hours of paid prenatal leave during any 52-week calendar period."
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Aug. 21, 2025
"Although PEPs are available to all sizes of employers, the New Guidance is specifically intended to help small employers evaluate and select 'high- quality' and 'low-cost' PEPs. The New Guidance also includes general questions intended to solicit information that may be used to help keep Congress informed about the PEP industry, and to help the DOL develop regulatory safe harbors to encourage the proliferation of these plans"
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Aug. 17, 2025
"[T]he 2020 Letter is no longer qualified by the Supplemental Statement, and although that change, in and of itself, does not appear to permit plan sponsors to immediately offer asset allocation funds with a private equity component as investment options with impunity, it is the first step towards a significantly more open environment."
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Aug. 7, 2025
"Although some of the OBBB's benefits provisions simply make permanent existing temporary suspensions in the Code, others will provide opportunities for enhancement or expansion of employee benefit programs.... Conversely, the OBBB also presents some challenges for employers, who must now revise how they monitor certain executive compensation amounts, and make operational changes to their payroll administration systems for certain wages such as overtime pay."
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
June 18, 2025
"Although the 2025 Release is a significant departure from the previous guidance, it explicitly stops short of endorsing the inclusion of cryptocurrency in 401(k) plan investment menus. Therefore, under current guidance, plan fiduciaries will be required to make their own judgment regarding the prudence of including such an investment option."
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Apr. 22, 2025
"In a start-up or early-stage company where the value of the company's stock often starts off low but has the potential for significant future appreciation, founders can potentially save taxes by making an 83(b) election.... If the restricted shares are forfeited (for example, because the employee quits before the vesting date) or the shares decrease in value, the employee may be limited in their ability to recoup the taxes already paid when the 83(b) election was made[.]"
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Apr. 15, 2025
"The major changes, as discussed in a Q&A format in [FAB 2025-02], relate to the methodology for measuring the value of assets, value of liabilities, and funding level, and predominantly affect single-employer defined benefit pension plans."
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Feb. 7, 2025
"These changes, if applicable, would introduce more complexity to both payroll and plan administration, and would require additional coordination between the two systems ... If plan administrators would like to take advantage of the two new correction methods for errors involving Mandatory Roth Catch-Up contributions, they must implement procedures that are designed to result in compliance with the Mandatory Roth Catch-Up rules at the time of the deferral, including to provide for deemed Roth Catch-Up elections."
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Oct. 7, 2024
"[In] following the DOL's guidance with respect to such service providers, plan sponsors and fiduciaries should: [1] request and review the service provider's information and documentation regarding cybersecurity policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards ... [2] include cybersecurity and data privacy provisions in service provider agreements ... and [3] inquire whether third-party service providers have applicable insurance policies."
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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Apr. 7, 2024
"The new PLESA guidance is welcome as employers and plan sponsors consider offering PLESAs under their Code Section 401(k) and 403(b) plans.... [A]additional guidance is still necessary.... Many third-party administrators and recordkeepers are not ready to operationally implement PLESAs ... as a result, plans cannot in practice adopt PLESAs.... [Q]uestions remain, such as whether plan sponsors are permitted to involuntarily cash small account balance PLESAs out upon participants' termination of service."
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