Compliance

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...

May 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that paying exempt employees additional compensation at an hourly rate - instead of at overtime...

May 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Central District of California has rejected a motion by Universal Pictures to dismiss a race discrimination case...

May 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd Circuit US Court of Appeals vacated a district court's judgment that a trustee failed to satisfy its fiduciary obligation to make...

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In light of a 401(k) plan provision that automatically withdrew beneficiary designations upon a participant's remarriage, the participant's parents, not his ex-wife, should...

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pensions Regulator in the UK has published its medium term strategy report setting out its strategic priorities for the next three years.

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for the pensions of nearly 4,000 employees and retirees of Aloha Airlines Inc.

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New Jersey has cleared a networking company of wrongdoing in how officials handled the company stock shares in its...

April 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Keller Manufacturing Company, a now-defunct Louisville, Kentucky furniture maker, announced Friday that it has formally requested that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has hiked some user fees including fees for letter rulings and determination letters for Employee Plans (EP) and...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislators in Texas proposed an amendment to a business tax bill that would penalize employers who hire illegal immigrants and pay them substandard...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state court jury on Wednesday heard pleas from lawyers representing a woman who was spanked in front of her colleagues as...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Proposed legislation by three US House of Representative members would give federal employees six weeks of paid leave for the birth of a...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A proposal moving through the Wisconsin state Legislature would prohibit anyone from requiring people to have the tiny chips embedded in them or...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A compromise measure to reform the Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) was approved by the Colorado Senate's State, Veterans, and Military Affairs...

April 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canada's Supreme Court declined to hear a case from an Ontario Court of Appeal that removed the obligation of pension plan administrators to...

April 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts House voted overwhelmingly to override Governor Mitt Romney's eight vetoes of the state's new aggressive health care law.

April 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attendance of a job is necessary, even if the employee's absences are for legitimate medical and personal reasons, according to a ruling by...

April 25, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Noting that Congress has already missed a deadline for generating a pension reform compromise measure, one key lawmaker is now warning that it...