Compliance

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Labor Department (DoL) reportedly plans to unveil new rules this spring to allow financial institutions to release 401(k) assets contained in...

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The UK Pensions Regulator's code of practice on funding defined benefit pension schemes goes into effect tomorrow.

February 14, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers representing two business groups have argued to the US Supreme Court that employees alleging workplace discrimination should be required to prove formal...

February 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Employment Standards Administration's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) collected $166,005,014 in back wages for over 241,000 employees in fiscal year 2005.

February 8, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Illinois has rejected allegations that an employee was due significantly higher benefits after being promised them by one of...

February 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Alabama handed workers a legal victory by ruling that an employer may not legally be able to require workers...

February 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of New York has remanded the state law claims of employees who no longer qualified...

February 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California may join a handful of other states in pressuring Wal-Mart and other large employers to beef up their employee health care coverage...

February 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a participant is not required to enter arbitration based on the investment management...

February 3, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to avoid taking over the underfunded pension plan of WCI...

February 3, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has ruled that a man who entered a relationship code on a life insurance beneficiary designation form to indicate...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has put out two amendments to class exemptions allowing plans to conduct transactions...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has ruled that a woman who worked for a company for 11 years,...

February 2, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Texas has cleared Reliant Energy of charges that it breached its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A government official said Wednesday that the German government will raise the country's retirement age in steps to 67 from 65 by 2029...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has given three former employees the green light to continue their lawsuit alleging...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US District Court for the District of South Dakota has ruled that a health care plan administrator cannot limit the special enrollment...

February 1, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's insurer of private-sector pension plans has assumed responsibility for a pension plan covering nearly 2,000 former workers for a bankrupt Atlanta-based...

January 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service will increase examinations of companies' retirement plans this year, with plans to perform focused exams on about 9,000 companies...

January 31, 2006 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state appellate court has handed employers a victory by ruling that payments owed to current and former employees for not providing...