United States: Reported Compliance Problems: The Six Stages Of Corporate Grief

Last week, I had the honor of participating in a panel discussion about how health care entities deal with reported compliance concerns at the ABA’s 16th Annual Conference on Emerging Issues in Healthcare Law. The panel was made up of experienced health care attorneys with broad and long-standing health care experience: Richard Westling, current First Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Louisiana; Lesley Ann Skillen, an experienced relator/whistleblower attorney with Getnick & […]

By | March 13th, 2015 ||

Canada: C.D. Howe Paper: The Taxation Of Single-Employer Target Benefit Plans – Where We Are And Where We Ought To Be

Jana Steele, Ian McSweeney, Barry Gros and Karen Hall recently co-authored the C.D. Howe Paper, The Taxation of Single-Employer Target Benefit Plans – Where We Are and Where We Ought To Be.  The paper offers a blueprint of how tax rules can be changed to better accommodate single-employer target benefit plans (TBPs).

Many employers have been looking for alternatives beyond traditional pension arrangements to better manage their pension risks. TBPs are an attractive hybrid of […]

By | March 12th, 2015 ||

United States: Proposed Rule Implementing Contractor “Blacklisting” Executive Order Advances

On March 6, federal agencies charged with carrying out the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (EO) submitted their proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, signaling its imminent release. The so-called “blacklisting” EO provides that employers can be denied federal contracts if they or their subcontractors violated or allegedly violated a host of federal labor laws within the past three years. This EO will impose new and […]

By | March 12th, 2015 ||