Compliance

September 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has reversed course - ruling that employers can require prospective employees to sign an arbitration agreement as a condition...

August 16, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has granted class-action status to a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against soap maker Dial Corp by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...

August 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If the Clinton Administration has its way, there will be no more "wear-away" of retirement benefits as part of a conversion to a...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Employers prevail in more than two-thirds of job discrimination suits in federal court ? and then win nearly half of the cases lost...

July 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Today Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao kicks off a series of hearings on work-related injuries --but key Democrats have already accused the forum of...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned aside a bid from Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. to limit disclosure of company salary and promotion...

June 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participant loan repayments become assets of an employer retirement plan as soon as they can reasonably be separated from the company's general funds.

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Department of Labor (DoL) officials have made it clear that they're "exceptionally unhappy" with Enron's move to back out of an agreement...

April 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The boundaries of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which forbids discrimination against disabled workers, are set to be tested as the...

April 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a case involving a 400lb woman with a genetic metabolic disorder, New Jersey Supreme Court justices for the first time recognized morbid...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing's (3M) "Your Benefits" booklet promised retirees "lifetime" medical benefits, former workers still weren't legally entitled to them...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Representative Henry Waxman (D-California) wants former Enron President Jeff Skilling to tell his side of meetings with the California Public Employees Retirement System...

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just days prior to going to trial, Arthur Andersen LLP has agreed to pay $217 million to resolve all pending litigation in connection...

March 16, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US mutual funds with foreign holdings might be pricing their funds inaccurately, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission official.

March 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's pension insurer has picked up another underfunded pension plan - and no, it's not Enron's.

February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension issues will loom large on the Hill this week as a focal point of several Enron-related Congressional hearings.

February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Following is a sampling of reactions to the reform proposals President George Bush put forward Friday.

February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington and industry insiders alike believe that President Bush's 401(k) plan proposals are a step in the right direction.

February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush continued to tout his new pension proposal over the weekend, as plan sponsors tried to figure out what it meant for...

February 4, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform's champions have teamed up again - this time with a bill that purports to offer participants greater latitude in managing their...