Compliance

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that a "zero tolerance" workplace violence policy did not warrant the discharge of multiple union...

April 12, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Bush Administration analysis of its pending defined benefit pension reform proposal paints a decidedly rosy picture of the plan's potential advantages that...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Texas Supreme Court has ruled that a temporary employment agency's client is not protected by workers compensation's exclusive remedy provision unless it...

April 11, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has overturned lower court rulings for a case in which a couple was trying to shield their IRA accounts...

April 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At the end of a bitter legal battle, Eagle Global Logistics has recovered nearly $6 million that it had previously set aside as...

April 8, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The South Carolina Senate has approved a plan to overhaul the state retirement system.

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A fiduciary breach suit against Polaroid Corp. cleared a legal hurdle when a New York federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit filed...

April 7, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Puerto Rico federal judge has sent back to state court a lawsuit by a worker who claimed employees of his employer's long...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal securities regulators unanimously voted Wednesday to allow Wall Street investment brokers to keep hawking investment advice without having to become registered investment...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Britain's Pension Protection Fund (PPF), which started work on Wednesday as the UK's answer to the US Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) as...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Nebraska federal judge has granted class action status to a lawsuit representing about 400 current and former Union Pacific Railroad workers who...

April 6,2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - AT&T has been cleared of violating its fiduciary duty by a federal appeals court in a case involving former employees who felt they were...

April 6, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California state appeals judges have turned away a challenge to a recent ruling upholding the Golden State's expansion of domestic partnership rights.

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees in an employer-provided Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) where the employer reimburses workers for certain medical expenses don't have to count the reimbursement...

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DoL) has announced that it has expanded and simplified the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program.

April 5, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The $45 billion to $50 billion collective pension underfunding in the US auto industry could very well be the next ticking time bomb...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent judgement in a case brought against a New York union for illegal use...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published two guidance documents reflecting recent changes to certain defined contribution plans as well as to certain...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ruling in a case involving an Arkansas couple who had rolled over pension distributions into an individual retirement account (IRA), a unanimous US...

April 4, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The NASD is recommending that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandate Web-based disclosure of mutual fund point of sale information through a...