Compliance

March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Colorado has given participants challenging their employer's cash balance plan a chance to rewrite their lawsuit to better define...

March 21, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state judge who had already ruled that managers at popular coffee emporium Starbucks routinely raided the tip jars in its Golden...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appellate court has ruled that an employer can't cut retired union members' health benefits because a union contract links the benefits...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rejected pleas to spare former Brocade Human Resources chief Stephanie Jensen from serving prison time in connection with a...

March 20, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced it will publish a final rule to amend PBGC's regulations on Premium Rates and Payment of...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from the family of a former Wal-Mart employee injured in a car crash in...

March 19, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute has filed a 13-page comment letter with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) about the new 403(b) retirement savings plan regulations,...

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private-sector pension insurer announced on Tuesday that it will publish a proposed new rule implementing changes mandated by the Pension Protection...

March 18, 2008 ((b)lines) - Final 403(b) regulations issued by the Internal Revenue Service require that all 403(b) programs have in place a written plan document and specify...

March 18, 2008 ((b)lines) - An adviser has some charter school clients that have been utilizing the DoL safe harbor in Labor Reg. § 2510.3-2(f). The adviser asks:...

March 18, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) provided to defined benefit plan...

March 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court ruling that an employer that acted on the only complaints it...

March 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In the same way as it has already ruled that nonemployer individuals in a workplace cannot be held liable for discrimination claims under...

March 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - If you're looking for an idea as to when that stimulus payment will arrive, you might want to start by checking out your...

March 17, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that a pension plan administrator was correct in denying surviving spouse...

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has decided an applicant for a job as a part-time library page does not have to...

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Announcement 2008-23, which lays out a new simplified process for obtaining determination letters for pre-approved defined...

March 14, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a measure tuning up the Pension Protection Act (PPA), but the bill did not deal with the...

March 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the nation's private pension plan insurer, is analyzing its transition management processes - with an eye toward...

March 13, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former employee of a health-care facility can't sue his old employer for not properly funding the company's profit-sharing plan, a federal judge...