Compliance

April 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a suit against Northwest Airlines for allegedly refusing to fill ground job vacancies with disabled...

March 27, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California appellate court has ruled that an employee's written acknowledgment of the terms in an employee handbook did not bind her to...

March 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Labor Department has filed a lawsuit against an employer for allegedly overvaluing company stock contributed to its employee pension plans.

March 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what is becoming a familiar refrain from employees of beleaguered companies with company stock in their 401(k) plan, Global Crossing workers allege...

March 15 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Welfare Benefits Administration has never studied the extent of non-compliance with federal pension and benefit laws so it can't be sure...

March 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The pension protection bill passed overwhelmingly by the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday appears to be a work in progress - but...

March 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has agreed with a lower court's ruling that Oklahoma's bad faith law is preempted by ERISA

February 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a 1983 state court divorce settlement naming a General Electric employee's daughters as beneficiaries qualifies as...

February 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today released a fact sheet for employers who are considering allowing a disabled individual to telecommute...

February 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In yet another unprecedented event in the Enron case, it now seems that a group of Enron workers will get a voice at...

February 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors could gain some additional insights, and perhaps some help in managing mutual fund expenses, from a Congressional committee review of mutual...

January 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)-The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Foundation has teamed with a group of television writers in a class action age-bias lawsuit against TV networks,...

January 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tomorrow the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that will clarify whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) pre-empts...

January 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can still get workers back pay or other benefits from their employer - even if the...

January 15, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An accounting company worker was right to go after ERISA-required interest on delayed disability payments, a federal appeals court has ruled.

January 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who want to add a "deemed IRA" to their pension plans under an EGTRRA provision now have official guidance on how...

January 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A financial consultant that appraised the company stock of an Illinois direct marketing firm can't be held responsible for the firm's ESOP losses...

January 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Security firm Brink's Inc, a division of Pittston Co Inc, has been hit with a $30,000 penalty on charges it discriminated against a...

January 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government has sued a Tulsa, Oklahoma oil industry parts manufacturer for forcing more than 50 East Indian workers to put up...

December 26, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can be held liable for dangerous conditions on their premises if they don't eliminate the hazard in a reasonable amount of time,...