Compliance

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Older Americans will only get a 2.6% cost-of-living increase in their monthly Social Security checks next year ? a smaller amount than January?s...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has proposed that requirements for explanations given to participants about two types of annuities be consolidated and has...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - About 5,000 women who were allegedly fired or denied employment by Rent-A-Center Inc. will share in a $47-million settlement of two class-action sex...

October 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court Monday let stand a lower court decision that blocked the state of Connecticut from suing a health maintenance organization...

October 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors seeking an Internal Revenue Service letter proclaiming their plan as tax qualified can get copies of the recently revised necessary forms...

August 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Administrative rules governing reporting of insider trading within employer retirement plans that arose from a recent landmark corporate reform bill should be ready...

August 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors in retirement programs at American Express Retirement Services now have another investment option to consider in the popular growth space.

July 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would allow the use of pre-tax employee contributions to buy company stock options, while...

June 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate is expected to take up the patients' bill of rights today, but Senate Republicans yesterday were threatening to hold up debate,...

June 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest employer of women has been charged with discriminating against its female employees in what is potentially the largest class action...

May 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another plan sponsor may soon find itself in court fending off a class action suit from Sprenger & Lang, the law firm currently...

May 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Richard Curtis, Executive Director of the $700 million Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System defined benefit plan, has been battling the Securities and Exchange...

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The only female governor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has sued her former employer over claims she and other women were...

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASA has agreed to pay $3.75 million to 100 black workers who claim the space agency denied them promotions because of their race.

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A leasing subsidiary of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company will shell out $2.3 million as part of a settlement of a racial discrimination lawsuit by...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hearing by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education will focus on less onerous alternatives to the...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad has settled a federal lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that challenged its secret genetic testing...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge upbraided the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for not trying harder to settle the racial discrimination claims of a...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last week the Senate Finance Committee approved the Affordable Education Act of 2001 that would, among other things, make permanent the tax-free treatment...

February 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - During the second day of House hearings on the Enron debacle, Congressmen expressed interest in a professor's call for greater employee involvement in...