Appellate Court Finds McDonald's Liable for Fake Strip Search Incident
November 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Kentucky appeals court has found McDonald’s Corp. is liable in the se.xual assault case of an employee detained by supervisors who were...
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IRS Issues Final Rule on Certain Notice Requirements
November 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has issued a final rule (T.D. 9472) on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act Section 204(h) notice requirements for...
GOP Reps. Demand Pension Disclosures
November 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Two U.S. House members demanded that Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis give workers immediate access to information about the health of their pension...
GAO Report Examines Executive Comp Practices at Firms with Underfunded Pensions
November 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has some legislators talking about freezing executive compensation at firms that have...
NY High Court Upholds Benefits Rights for Same-sex Married Couples
November 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - New York's top court on Thursday rejected a Christian legal group's challenge to the provision of public employee benefits to same-sex couples legally...
Boehner Slams Obama Administration for Advice Move
November 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) today blasted the decision by the Obama Administration to withdraw the final regulations on investment...
EBSA Pulls Back Controversial Advice Mandate
November 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The long saga of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DoL) hotly debated investment advice rule took another twist Thursday when the DoL’s Employee...
Ohio High Court to Clarify Muddy Pregnancy Bias Law
November 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to take an appeal of a long-running pregnancy discrimination case that has already drawn four formal opinions...
Ohio Supreme Court to Clarify Muddy Pregnancy Laws
November 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to take an appeal of a long-running pregnancy discrimination case that has already drawn four formal opinions...
IRS Puts Out Final Stock Option Grant Rule
November 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. Treasury department officials adopted some of the changes suggested by the public for rules governing the tax status of stock granted...
IRS Considering 403(b) Contributions for Unused PTO
November 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service is considering giving 403(b) plan participants the option to contribute to their plan accounts the dollar equivalent of unused...
EBSA Delays Advice Rule – Again
November 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced Monday that it is giving itself until May 17, 2010, to...
Florida Lawmaker Files DB to DC Bill
November 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Florida state senator has filed a bill (S.B. 660) that renames the Sunshine State’s defined contribution offering and forces all new...
PBGC Unveils USERRA Final Rule
November 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The nation’s private-sector pension insurer on Monday unveiled a final rule making it easier for returning service members to receive pension and...
Employers Must Adjust Tax Withholding for Non-resident Aliens
November 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – The Internal Revenue Service is providing guidance to employers on a new income tax withholding modification for nonresident alien employees to adjust for...
PBGC Deficit Back to 2005 Level
November 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) ended fiscal year 2009 with an overall deficit of $22 billion, according to the agency's Annual Management...
COBRA Subsidy Increase Proposed in Senate
November 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. Senators have introduced a proposal that would increase the subsidy for COBRA insurance premiums for employees who are involuntarily terminated and extend...
DoL Cautions Plans about Sharing EFAST2 PINs
November 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) officials have cautioned plan administrators that they should not share with anyone else their PIN numbers for...
GA Judge Sentences Ex-Insurance Executive for 401(k) Theft
November 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A Georgia state court has sentenced the owner of the Hoyla Insurance Group to a five-year jail term and 15 years of probation,...
High Court Mulls Taking USERRA Appeal
November 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – U.S. Supreme Court justices are considering hearing an appeal in an employment discrimination case about whether an employer can be held liable...