Compliance

November 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The current and former trustees of several retirement, health and welfare plans of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union No. 99...

November 1, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A U.S. District Court jury has found the former owner of a plumbing company in Texas guilty of embezzling from its 401(k) plan.

October 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A provision of the new health care reform law requires employers to provide a place, other than a bathroom, for breastfeeding employees to...

October 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is moving to assume responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering almost 2,000 workers and retirees of...

October 29, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that a state law requiring public funds to divest holdings from companies doing business with Sudan...

October 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Investment Company Institute (ICI) and the American Benefits Council (ABC) have requested immediate guidance on section 2112 of the Small Business Jobs...

October 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Thursday announced that the 2011 deferral limit for 401(k), 403(b) or 457(b) plans and the federal government’s...

October 28, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) –  A federal judge in Georgia has rejected claims SunTrust Banks breached its fiduciary duty by keeping company stock as an investment option in...

October 25, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of the Treasury has ended the sale of paper U.S. Savings Bonds through employer-sponsored payroll plans, effective September 30, 2010,...

October 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Michigan has cleared the way for a Christian public interest law firm to appeal an earlier order upholding the...

October 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The New York Supreme Court in Suffolk County has granted an office chair maker’s motion to use a worker’s Facebook and MySpace account...

October 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has assumed responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering more than 600 former workers and retirees of...

October 22, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that a participant in the Verizon Communications cash balance plan is entitled to attorney’s fees for...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor’s Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) said the new fiduciary definition proposal by the DoL...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – In a press call on the Department of Labor’s newly proposed revised definition of fiduciary under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA),...

October 21, 2010 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – For the first time in a generation, the Labor Department has taken another crack at the definition of a fiduciary...