New Benefits Agency Head Focuses on Businesses in Early Days

• Preston Rutledge met mostly with business groups in his first months as head of the Labor Department’s benefits regulator • DOL’s proposed association health plan rule was a topic of multiple meetings

Assistant Secretary of Labor Preston Rutledge met mostly with businesses and industry groups in his first two months as head of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, according to Rutledge’s schedule, obtained by Bloomberg Law through a Freedom of Information Act request.

The schedule listed meetings between Rutledge and Fidelity Investments, Prudential Financial, Aflac, Charles Schwab, eBay, UPS, United Healthcare Group, Uber, and Lyft, among others. He also ...