Compliance

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a district court inappropriately concluded that an employer's actions were not severe or pervasive...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Virginia has denied a former employee's motion to enforce an order for his former...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Nevada regulators seconded the decision by state lawmakers last year to allow for prescription drugs to be purchased from Canada over the Internet...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Flouting a judge's suggestion that a worker should only be reprimanded for using the Internet at work, a supervisor for the New York...

May 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - It is discriminatory to deny same-sex couples family health and bereavements benefits if it is illegal for them to be married, a New...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Before submitting a determination letter application to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), plan sponsors can access forms and documents used by Employee Plans...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Senate struck down Thursday a veto by the governor of a provision that would force an assessment of employers that do...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued a revenue procedure that revises and expands the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS).

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals has agreed with a disability plan participant that the law did not provide the plan administrator...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the state wrongly forced thousands of retirees in a retention incentive program to pay contributions...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans on Friday announced that it had taken over a plan for 600 former workers at a...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee awarded an employee more than $100,000 after his employer defaulted on promises to...

May 5, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A participant in a qualified plan for public employees of Texas failed to convince the US Tax Court that she should not pay...

May 4, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a change in a salesman's job duties that caused him to spend more...

May 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canada's legislators approved a federal budget that left room for some assistance to companies struggling to pull their defined benefit pension plans out...

May 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A member of the US House of Representatives Republican leadership on Wednesday introduced a measure beefing up the nation's Health Savings Accounts (HSA).

May 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld a state appellate court decision that Exxon Mobil had a duty to not only protect workers from...

May 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US District Court of Appeals ruled that pension plans absorbed by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) must exhaust all other...

May 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling that a county's Department of Social Services did not violate...

May 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michigan employers would be barred from making hiring or firing decisions based on what candidates do in their private time under state legislation...