Compliance

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has backed a lower court judge in ruling that IBM's severance plan was within its right to deny benefits...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York federal judge has taken the unusual step of naming a small group of individual investors as lead plaintiff in a...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell has signed into law a bill mandating that elective deferrals to nonqualified deferred compensation (NQDC) plans are to be...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent Democratic Congressman has proposed that federal employees be allowed to obtain health insurance, retirement and other benefits for their domestic partners.

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has signed into law a bill that will allow commercial insurers to offer health savings accounts (HSAs) linked to...

July 19, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A court dismissed the case for a Verizon PA Inc. employee who was terminated on the same day the company announced a benefit...

July 18, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A protective order against a health plan participant's estranged husband was not the same as a legal separation agreement and therefore was not...

July 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Minnesota legislature passed a bill to increase employer contributions to the Public Employees Retirement Association (PERA) to 7% of payroll in 2010,...

July 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have released proposed regulations dealing with how employers can properly use electronic media to provide employee and beneficiary notice and information...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives has approved a four-bill Republican-sponsored package containing sweeping reforms of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials have put out new rules allowing an officer or duly authorized agent to sign a company's employment tax form either...

July 13, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal tax officials say they have received a "strong turnout" for their offer to settle up with companies that participated in an illegal...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two members of the US Senate Finance Committee have introduced proposals to change tax provisions relating to health benefit coverage.

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has asked a Philadelphia federal judge to take another look at her March 30 decision that...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Texas Supreme Court has denied a motion for rehearing a trial, finding that Diamond Shamrock Refining Co. L.P. was not guilty of...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have worked out a deal to give the Enron 401(k) and employee stock ownership plans a $305.3 million claim in Enron's...

July 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) plan to downgrade eight of its 23 district offices and add two local offices in Mobile, Alabama...

July 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill has been introduced in Congress to allow tax-free distributions from Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) for gifts to charity.

July 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A long-running battle by employees of a now-defunct boat building company over whether the employer should be held responsible for not funding its...

July 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has sent back to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) a case against Anheuser-Busch Cos. for use of hidden...