Compliance

September 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Department of Labor (DoL) officials on Tuesday released a proposed safe harbor rule covering default investment options chosen by retirement plan sponsors...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A trial regarding an employee who was strip searched at the command of a prank caller questions what responsibility the McDonald's and McDonald's...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Arkansas Court of Appeals has determined that an employee who was injured during a mandatory company retreat is entitled to workers' compensation...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has allowed Frank Crosby to pursue an ERISA claim against Bowater Incorporated that...

September 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia ruled that a plan beneficiary is not entitled to attorneys' fees and...

September 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said an employer may have violated COBRA notification requirements in the case of...

September 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Several industry groups have complained bitterly to the US Department of Labor (DoL) over the proposed changes to Form 5500, particularly its more...

September 20, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a district court's dismissal of a jury award to a police officer who claimed...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A UK tribunal backed the complaint of a former grocery store worker who claimed his employer refused to remove offensive graffiti on the...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In what it said was the first time a federal appellate court has considered the issue, the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The head of the Colorado Civil Rights Division said that an employer who fired an employee when he announced he wanted to have...

September 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASD has announced that it has fined Securities America, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska, $2.5 million for failing to supervise a broker who NASD...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California superior court judge chopped the $61-million verdict handed down in June against shipping company Federal Express in a discrimination suit to...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California woman who walked away with a $1.7-million jury verdict in an unusual case involving allegations of on-the-job spanking has had new...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have forced large employers to spend at least 8% of employee payroll on...

September 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a suit against Illinois-based supermarket chain Aldi Inc. for denying a request by a...

September 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer cannot be held liable for a worker's off-duty conduct because the company is not exercising control over the person when he...

September 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative committee for a pension plan did not fail its fiduciary duties...

September 13, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is considering updating current rules regarding required benefit plan audits and is asking...

September 12, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has determined that the qualifying event commencing COBRA coverage rights for the ex-wife...