Compliance

January 29, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush's plans allowing younger workers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in the stock market has an AARP leader...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has announced plans to assume responsibility for the pensions of 6,300 workers and retirees of bankrupt JA Jones...

January 28, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Senate has approved the Pension Stability Act, providing a temporary fix to the pension liability calculation dilemma.

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Fidelity Investments, through its benefits consulting arm, is now pushing the idea of a 401(k)-like account from which to pay health-care expenses

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning next week, employers will need to post a new notice about workplace injuries.

January 26, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Friday the Treasury Department and the IRS issued a ruling to shut down what the agencies described as "abusive transactions involving S...

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has upheld $2,200 in penalties to the former warehouse manager of a Long Island, New York company because the...

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The interim final rules of the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) have been extended to December 31, 2004 under a technical amendment.

January 23, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has thrown its backing behind HR 3108, sans Deficit Reduction Contribution (DRC) modifications.

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is undertaking a formal review of how cash balance defined benefit plans are valued - a...

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In protest of the Bush administration's plans to rewrite the "white collar" exemption provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), US Senate...

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has, once again, extended the deadline for GUST determination letter applications that had been due January 31.

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US House Ways and Means Committee Chairman William Thomas (R - California) has sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary...

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is pushing forward with plans to revamp Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provisions, despite objections from a Republican...

January 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Terminating an employee for personal use of a corporate credit card may have been pretextual, meant to obfuscate the company's interference with the...

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA gives those who put plan fiduciaries into place an obligation to to keep an eye on the work of those they appoint...

January 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though a Hawaii man's injuries requiring an artificial hip operation came about because of injuries suffered in a bar fight on a...

January 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In his annual State of the Union address, President Bush is expected to revive a proposal allowing younger workers to invest a portion...

January 15, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senate Finance Chairman Charles Grassley (R - Iowa) has released a corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) proposal to curb tax abuses.

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early-stage multiple sclerosis (MS) that is not found to affect major life activity, coupled with an employee's record of poor performance, does not...