The NBA players' association, not Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, proposed the elimination of the salary cap during negotiations aimed at ending months of labor strife, a league official said Tuesday.

The Department of Labor is investigating broker-dealer and registered investment advisors services to ERISA retirement plans.

The Department of Labor plans to repropose its controversial rule amending the definition of fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) shortly after the first of the year, Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary for DOLs Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), told a group of retirement plan specialists on Tuesday.

Less than half of American workers with diabetes think they have what they need in the workplace regarding their health, according to a recent poll of members of dLife, a community network and resource for people living with diabetes.