Compliance

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Massachusetts has rebuffed efforts by a former Staples, Inc. employee to gain protected whistleblower status over allegations the office...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has hit a Kentucky firm with a $2,000 penalty and attorneys' fees for being late in notifying a former employee...

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Chock up another win for a plan sponsor in the litany of revenue-sharing suits filed in 2006.

February 12, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can breathe a sigh of relief with word that a provision that would have expanded their COBRA obligations was dropped from the...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension fund has filed a federal court lawsuit against Goldman Sachs and other defendants with charges they filed false or misleading securities...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that executives only have a limited right to challenge workplace police searches outside their personal offices.

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR. com) - Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, on Thursday introduced legislation...

February 11, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio has determined that Huntington Bancshares Inc. did not breach its fiduciary duties under...

February 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced interim guidance for new requirements that defined benefit plan sponsors disclose plan...

February 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who had his age discrimination claim against a cash balance plan dismissed has asked a federal judge to reconsider the dismissal...

February 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The economic stimulus package passed in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday included government subsidies for health-care premiums for laid-off workers.

February 10, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York Congressman has proposed allowing public pension programs to pool some of their funds to buy $50 billion to $250 billion...

February 9, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors will get a walk-through of the 2009 Form 5500 reports and a new electronic filing Web site from a scheduled February...

February 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - You may have noticed that those year-end tax statements aren't showing up as soon this year - but the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...

February 6, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In light of the widespread pension investment losses linked to the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, the nation's private-sector pension insurer has reminded single-employer...

February 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With an expanding list of retirement plans snared by investments tied to Bernard L. Madoff, the Labor Department has published some guidance for...

February 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation proposed in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday differs from President Obama's proposal for limiting executive pay for bailout recipients in that its...

February 5, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has ruled that Lockheed Martin did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security...

February 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Next week plan sponsors in the Long Island area will have a chance to learn how to "get it right."

February 4, 2009 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court has determined that the forfeiture provision of a Capital Accumulation Plan (CAP) does not violate the state's weekly wage...