Compliance

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

June 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New Jersey ruled against Pfizer in a dispute over severance benefits arising out of the deal for it to...

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...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a House Education and Labor Subcommittee hearing on recently proposed paid leave bills, China Miner Gorman, chief operating officer of the Society...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken over a plan covering more than 830 current and former employees of Amsterdam Memorial Hospital.

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has asked to intervene in a suit by participants in the pension plan formerly sponsored by Tom's...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is considering a new rule to tax a quarter of employees' use of employer-provided cell phones as a...

June 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Representative Richard Neal (D-Massachusetts) has introduced legislation that would require administrators of 401(k) plans to provide plan participants with detailed fee and...