Compliance

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Fair Employment and Housing Commission unanimously approved in November the draft of regulations implementing AB 1825, the state's mandatory harassment training...

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled that claims alleging a fiduciary breach by a retirement plan trustee must...

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal court jury in Chicago has hit an Illinois trucking company with a $2.3 million damage award in a sexual harassment suit...

November 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees trying to prove discrimination in a companywide reduction in force (RIF) don't have to limit themselves to co-workers with the same supervisor...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Revenue Ruling 2006-57, announcing that smart cards and terminal-restricted debit cards are qualified transportation fringe benefits...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California Home Depot employee injured when a shelf full of lumber fell on his leg is entitled to psychiatric injury-related workers' compensation...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals has unanimously upheld a lower court decision that a pre-employment "strength test" discriminated against female applicants...

November 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the Bush Administration on Monday told US Supreme Court justices that they should enforce a...

November 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued Notice 2006-105 providing procedures for electing an alternative deficit reduction contribution for airline employers given an...

November 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has ruled that an individual's pension in the form of an annuity under...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court's decision that the widow of a drunk driver was due accidental...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida Sheriff's Department has sued Nationwide Life Insurance Co., over allegations Nationwide's retirement plan fees unfairly allowed the company to make a...

November 21, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has denied a former employee's motion for summary judgment on her claim that...

November 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of Minnesota has awarded damages and attorney's fees to a former Midwest Telephone Sales & Service,...

November 17, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Missouri woman who was fired from a public library for refusing to work on Sundays was reinstated to the staff assistant position...

November 16, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is publishing a final rule on premium penalty policy.

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) insurance program for single-employer pension plans posted a deficit of $18.1 billion for fiscal year 2006, according...

November 15, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The primary focus of new government guidance about avoiding avian flu from infected birds is on good hygiene, including use of gloves and...

November 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Washington Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) group and the largest banking trade association in the nation asked the Department of Labor...

November 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The date of a notification about a divorce between a health plan beneficiary and her husband triggered the plan's obligation to inform the...