Compliance

May 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, (R-Oklahoma) and Richard Burr (R-North Carolina) and U.S. Representatives Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) and Devin Nunes (R-California) introduced health care...

May 21, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has announced publication of a notice further extending the applicability and effective dates...

May 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As the current economic downturn weighs on the nation's pension plans, a Senate Committee plans to examine what it means to the nation's...

May 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charles E.F. Millard, the former head of the nation's private pension plan insurer, refused to answer questions by the Senate Special Committee on...

May 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Washington Governor Chris Gregoire has approved a bill delaying by three years implementation of a 2007 law giving employees up to five weeks...

May 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - "The major future issue for PBGC is what happens to defined benefit plans."

May 20, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers around the country are facing an increasing amount of litigation from on-call employees who claim companies are restricting their freedom too much...

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers representing plaintiffs alleging a fiduciary breach in the operation of the RadioShack 401(k) have asked a federal judge to certify the suit...

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Connecticut) has introduced the Healthy Families Act, which would provide paid sick days to nearly all American workers.

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer has taken responsibility for two pension plans covering about 4,300 workers and retirees of Lenox Group Inc., a...

May 19, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Missouri employer did not adequately justify a significant pay differential between a...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained court judgments ordering that $97,317 in benefits be restored to the 401(k) retirement fund of now-defunct...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Indiana manufacturer has received a mixed ruling from a federal judge in a lawsuit alleging its misdeeds in the handling of its...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it will take responsibility for the underfunded pension plan covering some 5,500 employees and retirees of...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled for the employer in a closely watched discrimination case over retroactive pension rights under the Pregnancy Discrimination...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell is expected to sign a bill extending health care coverage under a parent's policy for dependent children up to...

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants who are undergoing specific financial hardships would get some relief on 401(k) penalties under new legislation.

May 18, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has proposed rules that would permit employers affected by substantial business hardship to decide mid-year to reduce or suspend...

May 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and LandAmerica Financial Group Inc. of Glen Allen, Virginia, have announced an agreement to protect the company's...

May 15, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers who have relied on corporate owned life insurance (COLI) to fund either non-qualified deferred compensation benefits or other post retirement benefits not...