Compliance

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...

June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official, in an anonymous Reuters interview, asserted the tax agency is actually trying to save employers money by...

June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New Jersey ruled against Pfizer in a dispute over severance benefits arising out of the deal for it to...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D-Massachusetts) has introduced legislation that would require administrators of 401(k) plans to provide plan participants with detailed fee and...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a House Education and Labor Subcommittee hearing on recently proposed paid leave bills, China Miner Gorman, chief operating officer of the Society...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken over a plan covering more than 830 current and former employees of Amsterdam Memorial Hospital.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has asked to intervene in a suit by participants in the pension plan formerly sponsored by Tom's...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is considering a new rule to tax a quarter of employees' use of employer-provided cell phones as a...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Washington Post is reporting that President Obama could execute a dramatic policy reversal from the presidential campaign and come out in favor...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Administration officials have suggested legislation to give shareholders and federal securities regulators more of a say on executive compensation at publicly traded companies.

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Democrats have unveiled a U.S. health care reform plan that calls for sweeping insurance market reforms and prohibits insurers from denying coverage...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a sale that became final on June 10, the bulk of the assets of Chrysler LLC were acquired by a new corporate...

June 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has taken over the underfunded pension plan covering about 8,400 employees and retirees of Milacron Inc., a...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Colorado Governor Bill Ritter has signed into law a bill that would impose steep penalties for employers who misclassify employees as independent contractors.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal appellate judges handed employers a significant legal victory by limiting the rights of employees to sue over retaliation to those directly involved...

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Bipartisan legislation has been introduced to give workers a new incentive to annuitize, rather than spend, their retirement savings.

June 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The deadline for comments on the Internal Revenue Service's proposal for a 403(b) plan document prototype program was June 1, and trade groups...

June 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will host a free Webcast Thursday to help plan sponsors and service providers...

June 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday charged Boston-based Evergreen Investment Management Company LLC with securities law violations for overstating the value...

June 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The owner of defunct Concord, North Carolina, sign firm has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $57,089 to the company's 401(k)...