Compliance

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Airlines has settled a discrimination suit by, among other things, agreeing to do a better job of keeping disabled job applicants informed...

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ex-employee's assertion that his former employer breached the provisions of an employment contract by deceiving him about his job responsibilities is not...

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) has introduced a bill he says will make it significantly easier for American workers to unionize.

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued guidance for underfunded single-employer pension plans to determine if they must issue a 2003 Participant...

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees can use pretax dollars to pay for cafeteria-style health plan if they're automatically enrolled, and if they can choose between health coverage...

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversy over cash-balance conversions shorting retiring workers heated up as a Congressman released a list of 13 US offending companies, which the...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department are requesting public comment on the mortality tables used to determine current defined benefit...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) can be sued for a breach of fiduciary duties surrounding its calculation of pension benefits for former...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's ERISA-governed health plan's escape clause - that provides the plan is not responsible for paying a participant's health costs if that...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The "perfect storm" of pension problems has washed up a $5.7-billion deficit on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) doorstep as of July...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Republicans moved to shut down committee votes yesterday in retaliation for the rejection of a federal appeals court nominee. That temporarily delayed...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to the Enron debacle, which saw many employees losing their retirement savings through investments in Enron stock, a Senate committee passed legislation...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Church-sponsored pension plans would be able to invest in collective trusts under a bill set for a vote in the US House of...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky public library's firing of a female employee for wearing a necklace with a cross pendant to work has been found unconstitutional.

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers at companies with a health care flexible spending account (FSA) who have to pick up an antacid for an upset stomach or...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal labor officials have filed suit against the president of a New York City-based union for allegedly improperly cashing union health plan checks...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 100 current and former Xerox employees in four states have complained to federal anti-discrimination officials that they are racial and gender...

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decided to allow Enron workers access to financial documents that already have been provided to congressional investigators.

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second company stock-based lawsuit has been filed against newly bankrupt Global Crossing.

February 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conseco Inc has agreed to pay $120 million to settle a class action lawsuit led by two firefighters' pension funds in which the...