IRS Clarifies End-of-Year Cafeteria Plan Tax Reporting
September 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Wednesday issued guidance on how plan sponsors who have amended a cafeteria plan to add a grace...
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Discrimination Based on Sex Need Not Be Of Sexual Nature
September 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court's dismissal of a sexual harassment case, saying that actions that are...
Partial Plan Termination Not Discriminatory
September 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A district court judge threw out a participant's charge that he was specifically discriminated against when his employer terminated its 401(k) plan for...
Supreme Court To Decide On Federal Employees Access to Court
September 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that said federal employees could not...
PBGC To Replace Checks Lost Due to Katrina
September 2, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is offering next day direct deposit of benefits missed due to Hurricane Katrina.
After-the-Fact Add-On Wrong for Arbitration Agreement
September 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that a federal judge cannot impose after-the-fact conditions on the winner of an arbitration award.
UK Funding Rules Put Off until October 31
September 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has delayed the effective date of the new funding requirements for defined benefit pension plans...
Judge: Oral COBRA Notice Legally Sufficient
September 1, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Michigan man suing his former employer over his health coverage won a mixed legal victory when a federal judge cleared the engineering...
Alaska Jibes State OT Law with Fed Law
August 31, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Alaska state lawmakers have updated their Wage and Hour Act to make it jibe more consistently with the 2004 changes in federal labor...
Appeals Court Declares Des Moines Early Retirement Plan Discriminatory
August 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Des Moines Public School system's early retirement plan discriminated against older employees because it barred those 65 years old and older from...
IRS Releases DC Plan Document Language
August 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is lending a hand to plan sponsors drafting plan documents by supplying wording for defined contribution programs that...
Court Upholds Early Retirement Denial for Employee on LTD
August 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling that an employer arbitrarily denied early retirement benefits to an employee...
Rulings Show Participants Invested in Co. Stock Have Recourse
August 30, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two recent court rulings provide assurance to participants who invest their retirement savings in company stock that they have recourse when company actions...
DoL Issues Notice of Form LM-30 Changes
August 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's (DoL's) Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) has published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update the Form LM-30,...
Court Denies Venue Change for ERISA Case
August 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A judge in the US District Court for the District of Maryland decided that it was the proper venue for an ERISA case...
DoL Proposes Electronic Filing of Form 5500
August 29, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's (DoL's) Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) office has published a proposed regulation requiring plans to file the Form...
Appeals Court Upholds Denial of Supplemental Benefits
August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court ruling in a case where a former General Motors Corp. (GM)...
Witness in Co-Worker Case Claims Retaliation by Employer
August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled for an employee who claims she was retaliated against by her employer after she...
Recovering Losses For Individual Participants Is Recovery For The Plan
August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has disagreed with a lower court decision that an ERISA case be dismissed because...
IRS Lays Out Staggered Remedial Amendment Schedule
August 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday issued new guidance on how it would handle consideration of remedial amendments for individually-designed and pre-approved qualified...