Compliance

February 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After passing major pension reform bills last year, the US House of Representatives and the US Senate now face the task of reconciling...

February 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court has rejected claims of workers paid through a staffing agency that they were entitled to an array of employee benefits because...

February 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have put out the final version of enforcement regulations for the administrative simplification provisions of the federal health information privacy law.

February 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled that an employer is obligated to investigate suspected criminal usage of the Internet...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling for Weyerhaeuser Company (Weyco), who fired employees after learning they...

February 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) announced Thursday that workers and retirees at Enron would get $133.9 million in cash distributed through the...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Encouraged by efforts in other states to pressure large employers to boost their health coverage spending, Kentucky lawmakers are calling for the state...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has been asked to rule that writers' sexually crude comments and simulations while hashing out TV scripts could constitute...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former executive of Citigroup Inc., who has sued the bank for discrimination, has lost his bid to have his case tried in...

February 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers in New Hampshire killed a bill Wednesday that would have required companies with more than 1,500 employees to make no less than...

February 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York state's highest court has sided with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in declaring the city's anti-discrimination law unconstitutional because it...

February 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York has ruled that a participant cannot recover long-term disability benefits even though...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Rhode Island has ruled that ExxonMobil Corp. does not owe additional life insurance benefits to...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Labor Department (DoL) reportedly plans to unveil new rules this spring to allow financial institutions to release 401(k) assets contained in...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK Pensions Regulator's code of practice on funding defined benefit pension schemes goes into effect tomorrow.

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers representing two business groups have argued to the US Supreme Court that employees alleging workplace discrimination should be required to prove formal...

February 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) collected $166,005,014 in back wages for over 241,000 employees in fiscal year 2005.

February 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has rejected allegations that an employee was due significantly higher benefits after being promised them by one of...

February 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Alabama handed workers a legal victory by ruling that an employer may not legally be able to require workers...

February 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of New York has remanded the state law claims of employees who no longer qualified...