Compliance

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House of Representatives has approved a bill that would lower legal barriers that bar investment firms from offering participants financial advice for...

May 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Private detective work attempting to prove the contrary was not enough for Taco Bell to convince a Louisiana Court of Appeals that an...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONOR.com) - Retirees of Dayco Products LLC, who claim a collective bargaining agreement gives them no-cost health insurance benefits, may proceed with their class action...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees from the badly ailing US steel industry who lose their health insurance coverage would get a helping hand from new Congressional legislation...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Faced with a "pension time bomb" as countries around the globe struggle to mend their ailing retirement savings systems, European Union (EU) member...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The legislative stage has been set for a vote by the US House of Representatives on the Pension Security Act, a sweeping pension...

May 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Finance Committee has included provisions in its $441 billion tax bill to tax certain deferred compensation plans and deny deferral of...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ESOP trustee who approved a loan repayment after the company was acquired by another firm didn't breach its ERISA fiduciary duties, an...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Printing giant R.R. Donnelley & Sons has agreed to pay $150,000 to a paraplegic graphics technician who was refused additional work as a...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Supreme Court justices have refused to take a Texas case that would have allowed them to consider shielding states from unequal pay...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge denied efforts by a Minnesota internist to force his employer's long-term disability plan to begin benefit payments after the physician...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About 150 AT&T employees are considering filing a discrimination lawsuit against the company, their lawyers say.

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Small business owners are not only frustrated by the increasing amount of required paperwork, but are also confused about what the regulations require...

November 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has given plan sponsors two more months to use older versions of plan determination applications.

October 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors and practitioners alike can expect to benefit from the publication of new compliance guidelines from the Department of Labor's Pension and...

October 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Massachusetts woman fired from a warehouse store chain for wearing an eyebrow ring, which she claimed was a statement of her religious...

October 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - The SEC has broadened an earlier hedge fund probe to look into "fund of hedge funds" valuation.

October 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have approved a 30-day extension of the public comment period...

October 29, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has gotten final approval for new forms to report on-the-job injuries and illnesses, which will go into...

September 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government's latest assessment paints a glowing picture of the nation's health and longevity.