Compliance

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and government plan sponsors have been almost uniformly ecstatic about recent IRS regulations - but the deferral of sick and vacation pay...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Converting to a cash balance plan with a "wear-away" provision to cut off participants' anticipated benefits does not violate ERISA's prohibition on forfeiture...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), looking down the barrel of an $18.3-million budget shortfall, is considering sending its 2,783 employees on an...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US defined benefit pension system desperately needs systematic reform as it struggles with an underfunding epidemic that now exceeds a record $300...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 50 employers with defined benefit plans have formed their own lobbying group to do publicity about the DB arrangements and to...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, securities regulators issued a report showing that nearly one in three transactions in front-end load mutual funds didn't get the breakpoint...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decertified the remaining 25% of a class action involving promised retiree medical benefits at Unisys, ruling that the remaining...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned away claims by a participant in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) that the fund violated ERISA...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of more than 70 lawmakers has sponsored a bill to help provide health insurance to more Americans.

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forget about the Super Bowl, the emergence of Puxatawny Phil or Valentine's Day, when Congress reconvenes today the nation's legislators will be turning...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who is not enrolled in the company health plan, and thus not a participant, does not have standing to sue for...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A "subsequent good act" of hiring an older worker after firing another worker alleging age discrimination may be submitted as relevant evidence in...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because payments made to executives hinged on a change of company ownership, they are considered golden parachute distributions even though the contracts calling...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A jobs bill now pending in the US House of Representatives would also have a variety of impacts on employee benefits.

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have filed suit against executives of an Indianapolis firm for their failure to prudently manage the company's health plan and leaving...

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who thought the Bush Administration's retirement savings proposals were DOA are in for a surprise next year.

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has announced plans to assume responsibility for the pension of nearly 23,000 workers and retires of bankrupt Pillowtex...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Business is "booming" at the nation's pension insurer, but that could spell trouble for the private pension system.

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for the office manager of a Philadelphia law firm to pursue her lawsuit over allegations she...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A hearing has been set for Nov. 4 to examine the allegations in the mutual fund trading scandal and the need for new legislation to...