Compliance

July 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The board that sets accounting standards for government agencies has distributed new guidance on how the government bodies should report federal payments under...

July 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A law set to go into effect in Canada on December 12, 2006 will make it illegal for employers to mandate retirement for...

July 3,2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge threw out a lawsuit of a woman who claimed a Wisconsin restaurant did not hire her because she was HIV positive....

June 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee) announced Senate approval of the "Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2005," (S 1021)...

June 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawmakers said on Thursday they had not finished legislation to reform the US pension system and would miss the Independence Day deadline.

June 30, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SPARK Institute announced it has developed 'best practices' for frequent trading monitoring by retirement plan recordkeepers.

June 28, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CHICAGO - Following the political winds in the post-Enron and WorldCom world that are now focused so strongly on 401(k) plans, lawmakers currently...

June 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Missouri granted class-action status to a lawsuit claiming the exclusion of contraceptive coverage in...

June 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Massachusetts state officials are expected to decide this week the minimum amount employers must pay toward employee health care in order to avoid...

June 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals have each ruled that plan...

June 29, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Judge has approved an $11.75 million settlement of a lawsuit against Kmart Corp.

June 27, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has brought a lawsuit against Hagemeyer North America Inc. in South Carolina, claiming participants suffered more than $1...

June 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators are reportedly preparing their final guidance on the controversial topic of soft-dollar arrangements that can allow investment managers to use...

June 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Canada's high court shot down last week an attempt by 112 retirees and former employees of Rogers Communications Inc. to tap into the...

June 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a health fund administrator breached her fiduciary duties by continuing the fund's relationship...

June 26, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas has determined that the case of a 60-year-old who was reprimanded and fired...

June 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An association of large retailers went to a Baltimore federal judge to complain about a Maryland law they say unfairly targets Wal-Mart.

June 23, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has determined that a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule requiring certain...

June 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent order against the sponsor and service provider of the ePEO Link Inc. Group Accident...

June 22, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tyson Foods overcame a wage and hour lawsuit in a Philadelphia federal courtroom where a jury rebuffed allegations that the poultry company improperly...