EEOC Votes to Conform to ADA Amendments Act
June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has voted to revise its regulations to conform to changes made by the ADA Amendments Act...
Compliance
Health Plan Participant's Emotional Distress Charge Preempted by ERISA
June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire has dismissed an employee's charge that her employer negligently inflicted emotional distress on...
PBGC Takes on Fortunoff Cash Balance Plan
June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it has assumed responsibility for the cash balance pension plan covering nearly 3,000 workers and retirees...
ABC Suggests Improvements to Fee, Advice Bills
June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Pensions and Labor has approved The 401(k) Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act (H.R. 1984), which requires...
GOP Group Unveils Health Reform Plan
June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the Republican centrist Tuesday Group have released their core health care reform proposal.
Agencies Estimate Health Reform to Increase Deficit by $1T
June 17, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the major provisions of the Affordable Health Choices Act...
Employer May Have to Face More Plaintiffs in Wage and Hour Dispute
June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Calhoun, Georgia carpet and flooring manufacturer may have to face more plaintiffs in a wage and hour legal dispute as a federal...
PA Employers Can Cover Adult Dependents up to Age 30
June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania employers will have the option of covering uninsured single adult children up to age 30 as dependents on their parents' health policy,...
Participants in Company Stock Suit Fail to Get Class Certification
June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has ruled that participants in the First American Corp. 401(k) plan cannot be...
IRS Says Cell Phone Law Obsolete
June 16, 2009 (PLANSPOSNOR.com) - In a reversal of course, the Internal Revenue Service says it will suggest that there be no tax consequence for employers or employees...
Witness Lineup Released for SEC-DoL Target-Date Hearing
June 16, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced the lineup of witnesses organized in nine panels that are set to testify before SEC...
Judge Tosses Milwaukee Sick Leave Law
June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A law labeled by one business group as a "job killer," that would force Milwaukee employers to annually provide workers with nine paid...
Tobacco Bill Brings TSP Changes
June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congress last week approved legislation designed to further regulate and restrict tobacco products - but at the same time made changes to federal...
Employer Wins One, Loses One in Cash Balance Case
June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Monsanto Co. walked away with a mixed outcome from two rulings by a federal judge in Illinois - one in the employer's favor...
Important Deadline for 403(b) Participants Fast Approaching
June 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Sponsors of 403(b) plans may wish to alert participants that the deadline is June 30 for correcting defective contract exchanges to avoid the...
Judge Throws Out Unpaid Contrib Provision in Plan Document
June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the sponsor of a master plan to strike a clause in its plan documents relieving the...
DoL Announced $9.6M Settlement in Aloha Airlines Pension Dispute
June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) and two Hawaiian banks have worked out a $9.6-million settlement of a lawsuit over funds from Aloha...
Golden State High Court Recognizes Unintentional ADA Violations
June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court has decided that employers can be liable for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) even if they...
3rd Circuit Decision Limits Harassment Claims
June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a precedential decision, the 3rd U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that plaintiffs cannot rely on evidence that a supervisor knew of...
The IRS: We want to Save Employers $$ on Cell Phone Taxes
June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official, in an anonymous Reuters interview, asserted the tax agency is actually trying to save employers money by...