Compliance

September 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hitachi America's former HR director has been sentenced to a 57-month jail term in connection with his guilty plea to charges he defrauded...

September 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives has introduced a measure that would repeal the controversial Defense of Marriage Act...

September 22, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the U.S. Senate's Finance Committee continue to plough their way through 564 amendments to a proposed health-care reform measure, including one...

September 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling that a Nevada residential addiction treatment center did not prove a former employee...

September 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued proposed regulations to offer certain benefits to same-sex domestic partners of federal employees as...

September 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new U.S. Tax Court case barring a tax lawyer from claiming $125,000 in medical expenses for prostitutes and pornography as income tax...

September 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Joint Board for the Enrollment of Actuaries has released proposed amendments to the regulations governing the performance of actuarial services under the...

September 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has approved a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) revising its regulations to conform to changes made...

September 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - When it comes to employee benefit plans, there's a new sheriff in town.

September 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has proposed an exemption that, if granted, would allow General Motors Co. (GM)...

September 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The deputy commissioner of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission has ruled that the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibits Facebook Inc. from complying...

September 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of Delphi Corp. salaried retirees filed a lawsuit September 14 against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), which has taken over...

September 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private sector pension insurer is taking responsibility for the underfunded pension plans covering about 900 workers and retirees at bankrupt auto...

September 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer may still be on the legal hook for violating federal age discrimination laws even if the hiring manager accused of potential...

September 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has found that Boeing Co. did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security...

September 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff rejected a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Bank of America (BofA) over bonuses paid...

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Indiana Court of Appeals has agreed with the state's Worker's Compensation Board that an employee who sustained a work-related injury is entitled...

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Declaring that a female pilot suing her former employer for sex discrimination had put forward a strong enough initial case, federal appellate judges...

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has established an information center describing the various tax credits, deductions, and savings plans available under the American...

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Among its many provisions, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) included a rule change for Section 529 tax-free college savings plans and...