Compliance

March 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With sweeping pension reform measures in the US House and Senate set to be reconciled in a joint conference committee, one Bush Administration...

March 7, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Former Textron Inc. employees have hit a major legal roadblock in their long-standing battle to prove the value of their employee stock ownership...

March 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A deaf Federal Express worker has won a $108,000 federal court jury award after the package delivery company did not provide him with...

March 6, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Connecticut State Employees' Retirement Commission (SERC) is appealing a lower court ruling granting a pension bump of nearly $10,000 to a state...

March 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin has ruled that an employer COBRA notice to a contract worker 10 months...

March 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A full panel of federal appellate judges has breathed new life into a legal battle by American Airlines employees over the length of...

March 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AK Steel Corp. has been ordered to pay at least $46.2 million to 1,250 former employees in a class action lawsuit over miscalculated...

March 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers with a cafeteria-style benefits program must keep at a constant level the health care coverage of an employee taking leave time under...

March 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has decided that plan fiduciaries and third party administrators (TPAs) have a...

March 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey Senate has passed legislation that would annually single out employers that have 50 or more employees or worker dependents enrolled...

March 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Christine Quinn, new speaker of the New York City Council, on Wednesday led her colleagues in overriding a Mayor Michael Bloomberg veto of...

March 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Facing a funding shortfall of more than $5 billion in their state pension, Connecticut teachers have kicked off an awareness campaign to promote...

February 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has issued an injunction that blocks implementation of the US Department of Defense's (DoD) new human resource and pay system.

February 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) is extending the deadline for filing 5500 reports to August 28, 2006 for employers...

February 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Washington, DC has sentenced the former owner of an executive search firm to a year and a day in...

February 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of California has ruled that a deceased participant's beneficiary designation form was invalid, even though...

February 24, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Colorado House of Representatives committee essentially killed a bill that would have required large employers to spend a certain amount on health...

February 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois state lawmaker has proposed allowing state employees to move their defined benefit retirement plan assets into a 401(k) plan.

February 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has ruled that supervisors' use of the word "boy" to refer to two African American employees could represent sufficient...

February 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has given the go-ahead to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to collect monetary assets on behalf of...