Employee Benefit Plan Review featured Mary Samsa’s article looking into compliance trends in employer-sponsored qualified retirement plans. Samsa particularly analyzed “an uptick in governmental reviews of retirement plans’ annual reports; a heightened focus on misclassified workers as non-plan-eligible independent contractors; increased audit activity in plans with large numbers of terminated participants who have a right to vested benefits; and new short-term flexibility with respect to offering retiree lump-sum cashout windows within defined benefit pension plans.”