Bankers weigh in on the challenges of finding, attracting and retaining qualified employees.

On the latest episode of the ABA Banking Journal Podcast, sponsored by Windstream Enterprise, Steve Goodenow discusses how they built this equipment finance business within a rural Iowa community bank. 

ABA announced today that it has been certified as a great place to work by the independent analysists at Great Place to Work, which produces the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list and other top employer rankings.

A new survey of bank executives indicates that the competition for talented employees is likely to continue in the near term.

The American Institute of CPAs has extended the deadline for comments on proposed changes to auditing standards relating to employee benefit plans.

A 900-page proposal by the Department of Labor to update Form 5500 is “overbroad and significantly exceeds the requisite information necessary or appropriate for effective… reporting,” ABA said in a comment letter today.

There has been a significant amount of confusion of late about the applicability of recent federal contractor executive orders, particularly the latest one concerning paid leave. The applicability of each executive prder must be analyzed individually because each stems from one or more different laws with differing definitions of “federal contractor.”

A final rule from the Department of Labor raising the exemption threshold for overtime pay could come as early as July 2016, according to the DOL’s semiannual regulatory agenda released last week.

Last month, we advised readers that a Texas federal district court had enjoined the Department of Labor from enforcing its FMLA same-sex spouse rule in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Nebraska. DOL’s final rule change updated the regulatory definition of "spouse" in the Family and Medical Leave Act in keeping with the U.S. Supreme Court‘s ruling in United States v. Windsor.