Compliance

February 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employer industry groups are lining up to urge inclusion of the Portman/Cardin proposal in President Bush's tax proposal, with some predicting a significant...

December 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - At its first meeting under the Bush Administration, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) heard testimony and recommendations from various ethnic groups...

December 12, 2001 - The US Department of Labor (DoL)'s Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration extended the comments period for a number of class and individual exemptions currently...

December 13, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) told policymakers that the introduction of TRACE, the corporate bond pricing system, has been delayed for six months...

November 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service has published an update on the 2003 cost-of-living adjustments for a variety of fringe benefits

November 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has begun disclosing personal information of eligible PBGC pension recipients to sister agencies.

November 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers will not be required to withhold income tax from employees who sell company stock before the expiration of a holding period, according...

November 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge sided with 815 current and former production-line employees of IBP in a class-action lawsuit, ordering that the meatpacking giant pay...

November 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another state has lined its tax provisions up with the pension provisions of last year's tax reform package.

November 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An appeals court has upheld an earlier decision that an accelerated termination following employee threats was no conspiracy to deny benefits, according to...

October 25, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension plans will soon be able to invest in lower-rated asset-backed bonds, according to Ivan Strasfeld, director of exemptions at the Department of...

October 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Senate Democrat has introduced a bill that would add to ERISA a requirement that retirement plan administrators warn participants about the dangers...

October 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Just because his parent company funneled stock to subsidiaries doesn't represent a change of corporate control and doesn't mean a former executive is...

September 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Officials of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, who occupied the 37th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, are vowing...

August 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) has published some additional guidance on how plan sponsors can right transactional errors...

August 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In light of the stream of corporate debacles winding up in bankruptcy court, two US lawmakers want to give workers a better shot...

August 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Lawyers for Wal-Mart Stores are trying to get a record gender discrimination suit filed against the retail giant dismissed or transferred to a federal...

July 13, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Ways and Means has postponed indefinitely the Subcommittee hearing on Patients' Bill of Rights, previously...

July 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California government agency did not have the latitude to require health plan coverage of drugs that some might deem "medically necessary," according...

July 1, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With another employer apparently heading for bankruptcy's shoals, participant suits are springing up faster than ever.