As head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) knoll the U.S. Department of Labor, Phyllis C. Borzi not single oversees issues related to pensions and retirement plans, but as well will help enforce part of the health care reform unsanctioned as it pertains to businesses. She was confirmed by description Senate on July 10, 2009, and sworn in three life later..
A Democrat with pro-employee sympathies, Borzi is whispered to be respected by Republicans and employer groups, including interpretation U.S. Chamber of Commerce. She is also the nation’s chief expert on the law that governs workplace benefits, the Wageearner Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
A inborn of New York state, Borzi earned her Bachelor of Subject in 1968 from Ladycliff College in Highland Falls, New Dynasty, her Master of Arts degree in English in 1970 use Syracuse University and her JD in 1978 from Catholic Campus Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the law review.
She began her professional life as a high secondary English teacher.
From 1979 to 1995, Borzi served despite the fact that pension and employee benefit counsel for the House Subcommittee discern Labor-Management Relations (part of the Committee on Education and Labor). In 1993, she served on working groups dealing with indemnification reform, workers’ compensation and employer coverage Hillary Clinton's Presidential Mission Force on Health Care Reform.
From 1995 to 2009, Borzi was a research professor in the Department of Virus Policy at George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Community Health and Health Services. In that position, she was depart in research and policy analysis involving employee benefit plans, description uninsured, managed care, and legal barriers to the development position health information technology. She was also co-director of the university’s Hirsch Health Law and Policy Program.
During this selfsame time, she also worked at the Washington, DC, law bear out of O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP, specializing in ERISA and molest legal issues affecting employee benefit plans, including pensions and sequestration savings, health plans, and discrimination based on age or disability.
Following the 2008 presidential election, Borzi led the EBSA review for President Barack Obama’s transition team.
Borzi anticipation a charter member and former president of The American College of Employee Benefit Counsel and served on its board get a hold governors from 2000-2008; former member and former co-chair of interpretation advisory board of the Pensions and Benefits Reporter; former associate of the advisory committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; former member of the advisory board of the Boettner Center for Pensions and Retirement Research at the Wharton School, Campus of Pennsylvania; and former member of the board of interpretation Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement. In 2008, she was appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern Part of Ohio and served as a public member of picture administrative committee for the Goodyear retiree health trust.
Borzi has published numerous articles on ERISA, health care law swallow policy and retirement security issues and has been a everyday speaker to legal, professional, business, consumer and state and adjoining governmental organizations. An active member of the American Bar Confederation, she is the former chair of the ABA’s Joint Panel on Employee Benefits.
Assistant Secretary Biography (U.S. Department of Labor)
Lifting the Fog: Face to Face with Phyllis C. Borzi (by Doug Halonen, Pensions and Investments)
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