Compliance

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - McGraw-Hill Cos. has been hit with a stock drop lawsuit alleging its shares were artificially inflated because subsidiary Standard & Poor's (S&P) used...

June 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers won a major legal victory Thursday when a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled workers now have to prove their age was the...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Pensions and Labor has approved The 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 1984), which requires...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the Republican centrist Tuesday Group have released their core health care reform proposal.

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the major provisions of the Affordable Health Choices Act...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has voted to revise its regulations to conform to changes made by the ADA Amendments Act...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has dismissed an employee's charge that her employer negligently inflicted emotional distress on...

June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has assumed responsibility for the cash balance pension plan covering nearly 3,000 workers and retirees...

June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has ruled that participants in the First American Corp. 401(k) plan cannot be...

June 16, 2009 (PLANSPOSNOR.com) - In a reversal of course, the Internal Revenue Service says it will suggest that there be no tax consequence for employers or employees...

June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the lineup of witnesses organized in nine panels that are set to testify before SEC...

June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Calhoun, Georgia carpet and flooring manufacturer may have to face more plaintiffs in a wage and hour legal dispute as a federal...

June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania employers will have the option of covering uninsured single adult children up to age 30 as dependents on their parents' health policy,...

June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congress last week approved legislation designed to further regulate and restrict tobacco products - but at the same time made changes to federal...

June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Monsanto Co. walked away with a mixed outcome from two rulings by a federal judge in Illinois - one in the employer's favor...

June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of 403(b) plans may wish to alert participants that the deadline is June 30 for correcting defective contract exchanges to avoid the...

June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A law labeled by one business group as a "job killer," that would force Milwaukee employers to annually provide workers with nine paid...

June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) and two Hawaiian banks have worked out a $9.6-million settlement of a lawsuit over funds from Aloha...

June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has decided that employers can be liable for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) even if they...

June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a precedential decision, the 3rd U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that plaintiffs cannot rely on evidence that a supervisor knew of...