Compliance

May 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A worker's damage recovery under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) is not subject to subrogation by his employer or its insurance carrier,...

March 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congressmen Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) and Ken Bentsen (D-Tx.) have introduced a "Small Employer Retirement Plan" that would make it easier for employers with...

January 8, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court asked the Justice Department for its opinion on a Texas law that allowed patients to seek independent review of...

December 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan participants could have to pay state income tax next year on money contributed to their plan on a federal tax-deferred basis....

December 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants now have a special voice for their benefits concerns, the newly created Office of Participant Assistance and Communications.

November 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -- A judge presiding over a discrimination suit filed by African-American workers at the Adams Mark hotel chain denied their petition to file a...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - Apple Computers has found itself at the core of a $40 million suit, which claims that an African American former employee was denied promotions...

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court wrestled with the question of how disabled a person must be in order to qualify for protection under the Americans with...

November 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)has asked for public comment on regulation of actively managed exchange-traded funds, or ETFs.

November 7, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Ways & Means Committee approved the Retirement Security Advice Act authored by Education & the Workforce Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio), by a vote...

October 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor has published a final rule amending the circumstances under which small pension plans are exempt from the requirement to...

September 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -- An employer's failure to clarify that short-term disability leave counts under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) does not entitle an employee...

September 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has ruled in favor of more than 1,000 McDonnell Douglas workers, finding that the firm closed a plant to avoid...

August 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Recently a diverse group of retirement industry professionals converged in the nation's capital to drum up ideas to increase participation in qualified plans.

July 19, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House overwhelmingly passed the Comprehensive Retirement Security and Pension Reform Act (H.R. 1102) Wednesday, but the President said it doesn't do enough...

June 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush provided taxpayers with $1.35 trillion in relief - and plan sponsors with some long-awaited pension relief - today by signing the...

June 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) will schedule a series of public hearings to examine whether conditions in the work environment that lead to...

May 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Disabled workers have found success in suing for workplace harassment under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

May 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court handed Medicare HMO beneficiaries a major victory last week, acknowledging the right to sue health maintenance organizations for damages...

May 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An investigation into the alleged misallocation of initial public share offerings (IPO), which has targeted investment banks and their institutional clients, may broaden...