Compliance

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in favor of ERISA's preemption over state law.

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can require employees to take job-related disputes to arbitration rather than to court, according to the Supreme Court.

February 21, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A divided (5-4) Supreme Court ruled that states cannot be sued by individuals seeking money damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act of...

January 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning April 16, mutual funds will be required to disclose standardized after-tax returns and pretax performance, according to a new rule of the...

January 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor has offered plan sponsors additional guidance in deciding which plan expenses can be paid from plan assets - and...

January 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CALPERS), has been sued by the California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) for an injunction against a...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An office worker who ended customer communications with the words "have a blessed day" was not entitled to a preliminary injunction against her...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? With decimalization tightening trading spreads, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to extend ?safe harbor? protections for soft dollar trades to...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to require corporations to show the number of outstanding stock options, warrants and rights, and the...

November 20, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the US Departments of Justice and Labor issued a joint statement reaffirming the federal government's commitment...

November 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb has been smacked with a class action RICO suit for allegedly inflating the prices of its cancer drugs, according to...

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirees in private-sector defined benefit pension plans terminating in 2003 will get a $3,664.77 monthly maximum - a 2.38% hike from plans terminating...

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has reinstated an age discrimination suit by a health care audit consultant, ruling that potentially discriminatory remarks by a...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal government is making a list - and checking it twice - and then some - to make sure that plan sponsors...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Ways and Means Committee has passed a new bill that would give participants and plan sponsors some extra help in saving...

October 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Oregon pension board got raked over the coals by a judge who accused it of "improper management" and unfairly favoring...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Democratic leaders in the Florida Legislature are now backing a proposal to combat corporate fraud, a Tallahassee Democrat news report indicated.

August 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A newspaper reporter unable to use a computer keyboard due to repetitive stress injuries was nonetheless barred from a recovery under the Americans...

August 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is requesting written comments on the extension of the existing collection of information related to the payment...

August 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Perdue Farms has agreed to pay $10 million in back pay for more than 60,000 employees as part of a settlement of a...