Compliance

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has reduced a workplace discrimination jury verdict against Wal-Mart by $4.7 million while bemoaning the fact that a legal cap...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation introduced Wednesday in Congress would require local officials to gather and publicly release the number of employees that companies located in their...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida federal court jury has cleared Charlotte County officials of charges they fired a county secretary who complained about being sexually harassed.

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR) - Richard Goldblatt, president of Chicago Spectro Service Laboratory, Inc. is required to restore $626,215.20 to the company's profit sharing plan, according to a...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has thrown out an injunction barring the trustee of United Airline's employee stock ownership plan from selling its shares...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has turned down a request by a group of San Antonio firefighters to review an appeals court ruling that...

June 17, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has rebuffed efforts by Lucent Technologies to throw out a lawsuit by three former workers who claimed they were let...

June 16, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At a time when automatic retirement plan features have become a hot discussion topic on Capital Hill and in the US retirement services...

June 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US House Democrat has released comments filed by more than 2,000 retirees and employees of United Airlines as part of a novel...

June 15, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrative committee of a Wal-Mart health plan acted arbitrarily by refusing to cover a beneficiary's medical expenses because she refused to sign...

June 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two key US Senators have asked the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) for more information about hundreds of underfunded pension plans, which the...

June 14, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has barred a plaintiffs lawyer from participating in a sexual harassment lawsuit against a hotel company after finding that the...

June 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's insurer of private-sector pensions could be faced with a $71 billion deficit by 2015, according to a new estimate.

June 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Several thousand TPAs, consultants and other retirement plan service providers would be expected to register with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) if the...

June 10, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A defense company who won a contract to provide support services at a military base had no obligation to hire a returning military...

June 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because retired steel workers had no vested rights to reimbursement of their Medicare Part B premiums, their former employer was within its rights...

June 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of US House Republicans on Thursday weighed into the ongoing pension reform debate with a comprehensive reform package of their own.

June 9, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bipartisan pension reform measure introduced Thursday in the US Senate encourages plan sponsors to institute automatic plan enrollment and extends tax credits...

June 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A prominent US Senate Republican has now agreed to support a measure allowing commercial air carriers more time to make required pension contributions...

June 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal magistrate has ruled that a defined benefit plan administrative committee breached its fiduciary duties even though it did not intentionally miscalculate...