Compliance

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Montana Supreme Court has rebuffed efforts by a former cell phone company worker who claimed he still deserved severance pay even after...

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A provision of the pension reform bill, passed in the Senate this week, will allow workers who enrolled in a 401(k) plan at...

November 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Paul Hall Center for Maritime Training and Education and the Seafarers International Union (SIU) have agreed to pay $625,000 to settle an Equal...

November 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hearing in US Bankruptcy Court on Delta Air Lines' request to void its contract with its pilots' union began with an attorney...

November 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court let stand a case holding that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) preempted state law claims brought by a...

November 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The White House has called the Senate's pension reform measure passed Wednesday inadequate, and warned that President Bush was likely to veto it...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma has ruled that a participant can receive benefits for his claims related to...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Virginia federal judge has cleared a Washington, DC-based independent fiduciary of a fiduciary breach when it worked with the US Airways company...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate has passed the Heroes Earned Retirement Opportunities Act (HEROs), but has set a different effective date on the bill than the...

November 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The drive to reform the nation's pension system took a big step forward Wednesday when the US Senate approved a compromise measure.

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has refused to get involved in a lower court ruling clearing an employer of Employee Retirement Income Security Act...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Illinois federal judge has ruled that a participant's choice of his live-in girlfriend as beneficiary could be tossed out if it can...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has sent back to a lower court a case involving the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)...

November 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) insurance program for private sector pension plans sponsored by a single employer showed a deficit of $22.8...

November 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced settlements totaling $465,727 for five age discrimination lawsuits against school districts in Minnesota.

November 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With lawmakers in the Massachusetts state House and Senate trying to work out differences between their competing versions of a health care plan...

November 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform may actually reach the Senate floor now that Senators Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland) have lifted their procedural objections...

November 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent US House Democrat has waded into an always controversial topic in corporate governance circles with a new bill mandating additional executive...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The drive for sweeping pension reform continues its steady march through the legislative process with a vote by a US House of Representatives...

November 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The second phase of the reorganization of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is on again after a House appropriations committee member withdrew...