Compliance

March 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dearth of electronic Form 5500 filings has federal regulators scratching their heads and asking plan sponsors for constructive feedback.

March 10, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is considering alternatives to the agency's proposed 4 p.m. "hard close" rule aimed at ending illegal...

September 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company which forfeited an unvested worker's stock purchase plan account didn't violate a Washington state law prohibiting employers from taking a "rebate"...

September 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former housekeeping manager for a Miami luxury cruise line who claimed she can't work because of a herniated disc suffered when lifting...

September 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A lawsuit by a Sears Home Improvement Products employee against his employer for not granting leave to visit his dying father and for...

March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Albertson's grocery store chain must provide contraceptive coverage for all women as part of the chain's prescription drug employee health benefit.

March 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation was introduced in the US House of Representatives to allow health savings account (HSA) holders to deduct premiums required under their high...

March 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has provided flexibility to non-qualified annuity policyholders taking distributions under age 59½.

August 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has drawn a line around the use of workers in anti-union campaigns.

August 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors may find themselves confronted with contracts that seek to limit vendor liability - but that won't provide a shield for employers...

August 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It doesn't matter that Anthony Kiniry's stock options were awarded by a new employer after his wife Deirdre Ann filed for divorce -...

June 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The legal battle to recover the millions of dollars lost by mostly union pension and benefit funds through alleged fraud by Capital Consultants,...

June 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Xerox Corporation was under no obligation, in terms of ERISA, to allow rehired workers to buy back into the company's pension plan, a...

June 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US companies not only continue to fire people, but are doing it quickly, a new report said.

June 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A health care company that fired one of its nurses for being chronically tardy didn't let the employee go so she wouldn't be...

June 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when the nation's pension insurer is being asked to step in in a growing number of situations, the Pension Benefit...

June 27, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) continue tinkering with the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) with the release of minor changes...

March 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman William Donaldson is looking at changing up the way the $7 trillion mutual fund industry is...

March 5, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal legislation has been introduced to provide the self-employed and small businesses with up to 100 employees with choices among private insurance plans...

March 4, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush has signed into law a Social Security reform bill impacting public sector employees.