Compliance

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Republican co-sponsors of the Growing Real Ownership for Workers Act of 2005 (GROW) say they will push the bill to the Senate when...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an effort to help small employers deal with the ever-present problem of health-care coverage costs, the US House on Tuesday approved a...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new IRS Revenue Ruling says a Profit Sharing Plan violates vesting requirements and possibly other Internal Revenue Code sections if it imposes...

July 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a Texas educator still owes his ex-wife alimony from his 403(b) retirement account despite his having...

July 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The New Jersey state Supreme Court overturned a lower court's ruling in deciding that a casino did not discriminate against a female employee...

July 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled that Union Pacific Railroad's exclusion of prescription contraceptives and related services from its health plans constitutes sexual discrimination.

July 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension reform plan advanced Tuesday by US House Democrats calls for "middle and working-class families" to get a government match of $1...

July 26, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Finance Committee has approved a pension reform proposal requiring companies to fully fund their defined benefit pension plans and giving...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two leaders of the Senate Finance Committee have introduced a bipartisan attempt to provide some relief, and some reforms, for the nation's private...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois affirmed a bankruptcy court's previous ruling that approved the...

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors can take a look at the latest version of the Form 5500 as released Monday.

July 25, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An engineering firm executive who insisted on calling an Arabic employee by American names - over the man's objections - committed employment discrimination,...

July 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The agency charged with fighting workplace discrimination has revised its rules governing when the filing of certain types of claims will be considered...

July 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Though negotiations are still continuing, it is expected that the US Senate pension reform legislation will provide airlines with no more than 15...

July 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a district court's decision that an employee's absence to make a trip across the...

July 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Commerce Committee voted 14-8 to include a provision allowing reimportation of foreign drugs in its bill reauthorizing the Federal Trade...

July 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials said Thursday that they have obtained a court order from an Indianapolis federal judge increasing the amount that executives of a...

July 21, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Financial executives managing pension plans believe proposed pension reform is focused too much on the solvency of the nation's private pension insurer and...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) ruled that the employer of a city police officer could not require reimbursement of wages paid during...

July 20, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressional lawmakers are moving to make permanent the sweetening of permitted K plan contribution and catch-up provisions contained in a 2001 law.