Compliance

March 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court decision that an Oklahoma state law that prohibits employers from forbidding...

March 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has ruled that retirement plan participants did not prove that Fifth Third Bancorp...

March 3, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. House Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington) in February reintroduced the Family-Friendly Workplace Act (H.R. 933), a measure that would allow workers to...

March 2, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that an administrative assistant who had a heart attack at home after learning her job was terminated...

February 27, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a law firm cannot obtain fees from a distribution of retirement plan benefits...

February 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can get some help in implementing the new rules for getting tax credits to cover their additional COBRA premium payments put in...

February 26, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Barack Obama's budget blueprint released on Thursday includes proposals for an automatic IRA plan for workers and an expansion of the Saver's...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging held a hearing on the economic downturn's effect on retirement security, particularly for those who are...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Justices at Missouri's Supreme Court have opened the state's worker's compensation system to a group of workers formerly excluded by a definition of...

February 25, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Chairman of the Senate Steering Committee, and Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education,...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday published final rules relating to automatic contribution arrangements to reflect provisions of the Pension Protection Act and...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While individuals speaking during the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee's hearing on "Strengthening Worker Retirement Security" described the nation's retirement system as...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Documents regarding the COBRA subsidy included in the newly passed stimulus bill are now on the Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration's...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois has refused to block a disability lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity...

February 24, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has released new withholding tables that incorporate the new "Making Work Pay" credit - a provision of the American...

February 23, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging is scheduled to hold a hearing on February 25 to examine, among other things, target-date funds.

February 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed two derivatives actions against Merrill Lynch, saying the plaintiffs no...

February 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it is not granting an automatic waiver for 2009 of the requirement to notify the agency...

February 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The market's impact continues to weigh on the nation's retirement security - and it seems that Congress wants to do something about it.

February 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In an unusual move, a federal appellate court has reversed its own ruling and asserted a defamation case against office supply retailer Staples...