Compliance

February 9, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced that investment managers of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans can execute cross-trades if certain...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania heavy plate and structural fabricator was within its rights when it reduced a worker's benefits by forcing the employee to resign...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California CPA firm was ordered by a federal district court in Atlanta to make a restitution payment of $5,000 to the employee...

February 8, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Internal Revenue Service officials have announced an initiative aimed at providing relief for rank-and-file employees affected by their companies' issuance of backdated and...

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A potentially huge gender discrimination lawsuit against retailer Wal-Mart Stores can move forward as a class action, a federal appellate court ruled Tuesday,...

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's latest budget proposal includes an end to the tax-exempt status of employer-provided health insurance payments.

February 6, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Lansing, Michigan City Council has passed an ordinance banning employment discrimination based on "irrelevant characteristics," including a person's source of income and...

February 5, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) has fined four Fidelity broker-dealers a combined $3.75 million for faltering on some of their recordkeeping...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwater of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While plan sponsors and other fiduciaries must exercise prudence in choosing a fiduciary investment adviser and periodically monitor the adviser's abilities and qualifications,...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators may have overwhelmingly approved a bill that includes a provision limiting non-qualified deferred compensation programs (NQDC), but the NQDC provision may...

February 2, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that a 2004 amendment barring same-sex marriages prevents public employers from offering health benefits to same-sex...

February 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas ruled that Deluxe Financial Services , Inc. did not fire a machine operator at...

February 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers are required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to post a summary of the total number of job-related injuries and...

February 1, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though a life insurance plan participant had designated his girlfriend as a beneficiary, a federal judge has ordered that benefits actually be...

January 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York ruled that a benefit plan administrator did not act arbitrarily or capriciously...

January 31, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of U.S. Senators told the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) in a letter Tuesday that US Airways can now afford to...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Boeing Company has been cleared of wrongdoing regarding racial discrimination charges by an employee after a federal appellate court ruled the employee...

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Idaho Supreme Court ruled that stock options are not considered wages under state law, handing a defeat to a former Albertson's Inc....

January 30, 2007 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's Pensions Regulator made its last call to the pension community to comment on its November paper on how defined contribution plans...