Phyllis Borzi
Encyclopedia
Phyllis C. Borzi is the Obama administration's Assistant Secretary for Employee Benefits Security of the United States Department of Labor
, the official in charge of the Employee Benefits Security Administration
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United States Department of Labor
The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics. Many U.S. states also have such departments. The...
, the official in charge of the Employee Benefits Security Administration
Employee Benefits Security Administration
The Employee Benefits Security Administration is an agency of the United States Department of Labor responsible for administering, regulating and enforcing the provisions of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 . At the time of its name change in February 2003, EBSA was...
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Experience
- Research professor in the Department of Health Policy at George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Public Health and Health Services.
- Counsel with the Washington, D.C. law firm of O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue LLP, specializing in ERISA and other legal issues affecting employee benefit plan
- In 2008, appointed by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and served as a public member of the Administrative Committee for the Goodyear retiree health trust
- From 1979 to 1995, Borzi served as pension and employee benefit counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations of the Committee on Education and Labor.
- In 1993, she served on working groups with the Clinton Task Force on Health Care Reform.
- Charter member and former President of the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel and served on its Board of Governors from 2000-2008
- Former member and former co-chair of the Advisory Board of the BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter;
- Former member of the Advisory Committee of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
- Former member of the Advisory Board of the Pension Research Council, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania;
- Former member of the Board of the Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER).