A constitutional challenge to New Jersey’s race-and gender-conscious hiring requirements for construction project labor agreements portends an emerging state and local front in Trump-era battles against diversity efforts.
AI adoption raises profound ethical concerns—such as bias, transparency, privacy, and fairness—that ERISA fiduciaries must actively manage under their duties of prudence and loyalty, SBMA’s Alden Bianchi states.
A review of how large language models fit into the evolving compliance and governance landscape for employer‑sponsored group health plans by Alden Bianchi of SBMA.
The National Labor Relations Board transferred approximately 3,500 cases from three regional offices to locations with more bandwidth in the agency’s latest attempt to deal with its crushing backlog.
ERISA fiduciaries should understand AI’s promise, risks, and rapidly evolving compliance challenges for employer-sponsored group health plans, states SBMA’s Alden Bianchi in the first of his three-part article.
The US Department of Labor is ending its legal defense of a Biden-era regulation that widened the eligibility for overtime pay for millions of workers.
President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is negatively impacting some US-born workers in heavily targeted industries like construction, according to a paper released by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The Trump administration has left sections of the Department of Labor under-staffed and sidelined, raising questions around whether the agency is spending the money Congress has appropriated for it.
Cambria Co. LLC could be on the hook for about $5 million after a Colorado state jury concluded it’s roughly 30% at fault in a lawsuit brought by a former countertop fabricator who claimed cutting and shapping its products led to his incurable lung disease.
The 2017 tax overhaul included incentives to invest in distressed communities. Investors benefit from tax breaks and the designated opportunity zones benefit from economic investment, but critics say already-wealthy investors don’t need these breaks.
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