Compliance

December 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The NASD announced Monday it has slapped Jefferies & Company with a $5.5-million fine for providing "improper gifts and entertainment" to Fidelity stock...

December 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals said that pharmaceutical companies did not violate antitrust laws when they banded together to try and...

December 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As federal regulators continue filling in the detailed framework for the Pension Protection Act's (PPA) provisions, they are now asking for public comment...

December 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has sided with a teachers' union in asserting that benefits under a stand-alone, self-insured group dental plan...

December 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) announced it is suing the Iowa Association of Business and Industry over a stock windfall that the organization...

November 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced that a model notice, which may be used by employee benefit plans electing to be treated...

November 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) urges Congress to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to require more comprehensive...

November 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has frozen outgoing UnitedHealth Group CEO William McGuire's unexercised stock options and pending retirement plan benefits until a special review...

November 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and IRS have issued Notice 2006-107 providing transition guidance on the provision of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA)...

November 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have issued Notice 2006-100 providing guidance to executive compensation plan sponsors and participants on...

November 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A white paper released by National Retirement Partners, LLC and The Baker Companies discusses how the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (AJCA)...

November 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Up to 43,000 mothers in Ireland will qualify for an extra month of paid maternity leave starting in March 2007 under a new...

November 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BizWorld reports that the UK government has published its Pensions Bill, which will raise the retirement age to 68 by 2046, among other...

November 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California's 2nd Appellate District Court has determined that a state workers' compensation statute requiring employers to pay a $250,000 benefit to the estate...

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees trying to prove discrimination in a companywide reduction in force (RIF) don't have to limit themselves to co-workers with the same supervisor...

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Fair Employment and Housing Commission unanimously approved in November the draft of regulations implementing AB 1825, the state's mandatory harassment training...

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled that claims alleging a fiduciary breach by a retirement plan trustee must...

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court jury in Chicago has hit an Illinois trucking company with a $2.3 million damage award in a sexual harassment suit...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Revenue Ruling 2006-57, announcing that smart cards and terminal-restricted debit cards are qualified transportation fringe benefits...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California Home Depot employee injured when a shelf full of lumber fell on his leg is entitled to psychiatric injury-related workers' compensation...