Compliance

August 1, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued fiduciaries of the 401(k) plan of The Brown Schools Inc. of Austin, Texas, for failure to...

July 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The chief of the nation's private-sector pension insurer used the occasion of the takeover of several plans from a New York hospital to...

July 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The family of a grocery store employee who later died from cancer has won a legal battle with a federal judge's ruling that...

July 30, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Attorneys representing a class of participants in the AT&T Pension Plan announced a settlement agreement has been reached on claims the plan miscalculated...

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in New York has rebuffed a Xerox Corp. employee's challenge of the computation of her pension benefits.

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that disabilities that impair the ability to have sex are covered under...

July 29, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday announced they have signed a memorandum of...

July 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If a Nevada worker suffers a workplace injury that is sufficiently connected to that person's later suicide, the worker's family can file a...

July 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California employers won a major victory in a decision earlier this week by a state appellate court that ruled they only have to...

July 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced an agreement with Norwegian-owned Elkem Metals Inc. that will shore up funding for the pension plan...

July 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has extended filing deadlines and provided penalty relief in a number of counties affected by a series...

July 23, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a new Compliance Manual Section regarding workplace discrimination on the basis of religion.

July 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals became the latest federal appellate court to decide that former employees who allege that fiduciary breaches...

July 22, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators on Tuesday unveiled the long-awaited final portion of their three-part plan disclosures regulatory package that calls for sponsors of employee-directed plans...

July 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that companies with mandatory retirement policies are immune from age discrimination suits as long as they...

July 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.K. Pensions Regulator is delaying the introduction of changes to the way longevity is treated in the retirement plan funding regime.

July 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court ruled that federal employees can pursue a workplace disability discrimination claim under the federal Rehabilitation Act that the person...

July 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A House Committee has approved a measure to auto enroll new federal workers in the Thrift Savings Plan with a 3% deferral.

July 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Michigan has cleared a disability plan administrator of wrongdoing on the decision to cut off a participant's long-term benefits...

July 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a motion for permission to file a friend of the court brief, the American Benefits Council, The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), and...