Compliance

July 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversial "card check" provision in a union organizing bill has been dropped from the proposal in the U.S. Senate, the New York...

July 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) has introduced legislation plugging a hole in the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which has kept airline pilots...

July 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined contribution plan employees failed to prove a California technology company imprudently kept a company stock fund as an investment option despite a...

July 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. Senate committee has approved a health care reform measure with a price tag of $1 trillion over 10 years that is...

July 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released specifications for filing 2009 Forms 1098, 1099, 5498, and W-2G electronically through the IRS Filing Information...

July 14, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers would be hit with a "play or pay" mandate to either contribute to employees' health care coverage or pay a penalty as...

July 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D- New York) has unveiled a plan designed to help children save money to afford college, purchase a...

July 13, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate has approved the nomination of Phyllis Borzi as assistant secretary of labor for the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security...

July 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Treasury has delivered to Congress proposed legislation to strengthen the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) authority to protect investors.

July 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer with a legacy cash balance plan could define normal retirement age as the completion of five years of service without running...

July 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the Obama Administration would rescind the controversial and still not-implemented Social Security No-Match...

July 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found that the forced retirement of more than two dozen Puerto Rican police officers did...

July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has vetoed a bill mandating that group health insurance policies offer a health wellness program providing incentives to...

July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has found that Wachovia Bank did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security...

July 8, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who was accused of fraudulently arranging for an $18,000 401(k) plan distribution from a co-worker's account and then cashing the check...

July 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has turned aside legislation that would have given employees hurt on the job three years rather than 24 months...

July 7, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new lawsuit alleging AK Steel Corp. violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by failing to use a "whipsaw" calculation in...

July 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers would face tougher mandates to provide advance notice of pending large-scale layoffs and face tougher sanctions for non-compliance under a new legislative...

July 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Applying a recent U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with disputed benefits payouts, a federal judge in Michigan has ruled that a life insurance...

July 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The City of Philadelphia has agreed to a $275,000 out-of-court settlement to a 2007 lawsuit filed by five white firefighters who alleged they...