Compliance

November 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service have announced relief for sponsors of statutory hybrid plans that must amend the interest crediting...

November 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has determined that a pension fund's law firm that agreed to a settlement...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative George Miller (D-California), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-California), chair of the Workforce Protections...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - House Republicans have unveiled an alternative to the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962), unveiled by U.S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois who ruled last year that Verizon was bound by the language in its defined benefit plan document even...

November 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court jury in Birmingham has found that poultry producer Tyson Foods Inc. violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at its...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a participant in an overfunded defined benefit pension plan has no legal standing...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employer was not obligated to provide unionized employees with lifetime retiree health benefits that the...

November 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. House committee on Wednesday approved the Investor Protection Act, which backers say will strengthen the powers of the Securities and Exchange...

November 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would extend COBRA provisions for workers who are involuntarily terminated.

October 30, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has turned away a request by lawyers from State Street Bank & Trust to postpone preliminarily approving...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Obama has signed legislation that expands coverage for "exigency leave" and "servicemember caregiver leave" under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers with 100 or fewer employees could buy health insurance coverage from a new Health Insurance Exchange in 2013, as part of proposed...

October 29, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In testimony Thursday before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), witnesses urged legislators to loosen up funding rules...

October 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has published a notice revising its "Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law" poster to reflect changes required...

October 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has agreed to give governmental plans two more years to comply with final regulations on participant distributions upon...

October 28, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congress once again turned its attention to target-date funds this afternoon.

October 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. House Representatives Earl Pomeroy (D-North Dakota) and Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) have introduced a bill to further ease funding requirements for defined benefit...

October 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors (and "plan professionals") looking to bone up on the new Form 5500 will have another chance to do so online.

October 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced Tuesday that its maximum insurance benefit for 2010 is staying the same at $54,000 annually for...