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Reinstating Employer Accountability By Protecting All Forms Of Whistleblowing: Erisa Section 510, Roshni Hemlani
Reinstating Employer Accountability By Protecting All Forms Of Whistleblowing: Erisa Section 510, Roshni Hemlani
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
In the United States, employers who have little formal accountability largely manage health and retirement benefits of the working class. Employers face an enormous amount of responsibility to properly manage and protect the health and retirement benefits of their employees and their families. These organizational entities, however, are not subject to similar institutional safeguards as major public pension funds. Thus, Congress enacted the Employment Retirement Income Securities Act to charge employers with fiduciary duties of care over such plans. However, the remedies for those who breach their duty by mishandling funds or arbitrarily dispensing and denying benefits are quite limited. …