Compliance

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

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In Notice 2009-75, the Internal Revenue Service provides guidance in the form of a Q&A on the tax treatment of eligible rollover distributions...

September 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it will hold a roundtable about securities lending and short sale issues later this...

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 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's decision to include in the disability chapter of its summary plan description (SPD) a mention of a one-year limit on worker...

September 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Multiemployer plan sponsors who want to revoke a prior Section 432 funding status election now have an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance document...

September 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Rhode Island state judge has declared that the Providence Retirement Board can cut or reduce a retiring worker's pension under a law...

September 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging a New York state teachers group breached its fiduciary duty by paying "kickbacks" to ING...