US Labor Department to host free retirement plan compliance assistance seminar for Boston area small business owners June 6

BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration will host a retirement plan compliance assistance seminar in Boston June 6. The seminar is designed to help small business owners understand their fiduciary responsibilities when operating private sector retirement plans. It is free and open to the first 90 registrants. The all-day event will include information on understanding plans and responsibilities, selecting and monitoring service providers, making timely contributions, avoiding prohibited transactions, making appropriate disclosures to plan participants and filing annual reports to the government. The seminar is part of the agency’s national fiduciary education campaign and will feature speakers from the department.

Who: Department of Labor officials, employers, plan fiduciaries and service providers

What: “Getting It Right – Know Your Fiduciary Responsibilities,” a free retirement plan seminar for small business owners and plan administrators

Where: J.F.K. Federal Building, 15 New Sudbury St., Room E275-C, Boston, Mass. 02203

When: Wednesday, June 6, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. EDT

How: Registration must be completed no later than June 4. Information can be found at http://s.dol.gov/S9.

Questions from the public should be directed to Pat Humphlett at 202-693-8660 or humphlett.patricia@dol.gov. Members of the media with questions about the event should contact Ted Fitzgerald in the Department of Labor’s Office of Public Affairs using the information above.