Compliance

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...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has scheduled a vote on the Pension Stabilization Act for October 29.

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) outlined a plan to introduce stronger regulations on mutual funds to safeguard investments of the average middle-class investor, something he says...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan determination letters seem to be descending on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in droves, but the IRS appears to be handling the...

October 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Restructuring an employee's job while on leave does not interfere with a worker's Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rights.

October 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company's summary plan description (SPD) without explicit directions to domestic partners to file an affidavit to qualify for survivor's benefits was deficient...

October 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the US Senate Finance Committee are considering a pair of bills regulating company-owned life insurance (COLI) policies - one backed by...

October 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer assigning exempt status determinations to employees unfamiliar with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) were found to be in violation of...

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Terminating an employee for poor performance does not illegally interfere with the employee's Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) rights.

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company was within its rights when it held back information from a union about participants in the firm's Employee Stock Purchase Plan...

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Cash, stock and improvements in the company's corporate governance structure were among the terms of a settlement between Enterasys Networks, Inc. and investors.

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate on Thursday voted to block US Treasury officials from issuing regulations allowing companies to convert from traditional pensions to cash...

October 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have proposed a rule change to expand the permitted collateral for securities-lending transactions as well as allowing securities to be loaned...

October 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual fund companies got a stern reminder from federal securities regulators about the requirement that the fund houses properly disclose that their...

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors wondering if they should be doing anything, or anything differently, in light of the mutual fund trading allegations could find encouragement...

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Refusing to hear a case that would have allowed the justices to set standards for mass lawsuits alleging securities fraud, the US Supreme...

October 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government can garnish a participant's 401(k) plan account to pay a criminal fine without disqualifying the plan, the Internal Revenue Service...

October 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Add the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals to a "rising judicial chorus" of courts struggling with Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)...