Compliance

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...

January 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Michigan's practice of depositing inmate pension payments directly in a prison's general account for disbursement will continue.

January 13, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Widespread "revenue sharing" compensation practices in mutual fund firms have left the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wondering if investors are properly...

January 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to take a whack at potential contributing factors to problems plaguing the mutual fund industry...

January 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As part of its effort to emerge from bankruptcy by mid-year, Kaiser Aluminum wants to dump a broad range of retiree programs including...

January 12, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having exhausted all the remedies available through the insurance plan provider and ultimately winning the case, a plan participant cannot file a suit...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has stepped in to take charge of the underfunded pension plan of a former Global Crossing unit.

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock option income must be reported separately on W-2's issued in 2003 and beyond, according to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer didn't properly notify an employee's estranged wife of her COBRA health-care rights when it relied on the employee to give her...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer will take over a badly underfunded pension plan from a bankrupt steel products manufacturer - the latest in a...

November 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has settled a discrimination suit with aerospace and systems control company Honeywell for $100,000.

October 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The American With Disabilities Act (ADA) is not written broadly enough to cover Web sites as public accommodations, according to the US District...

October 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Education Association (NEA) teachers union and three of its Ohio affiliates have agreed to accommodate members with religious objections to funding...

January 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) policy covering rank-and-file workers is a violation of Texas law.

January 9, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have a new online option for handling their business with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC).

September 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court put a gay man's sex discrimination lawsuit back on its feet, despite the fact that federal law doesn't address...

January 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - There are darned good reasons why the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) prefers to conduct pension plan audits at the taxpayer's place of business,...

January 8, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Arkansas has thrown out a lawsuit that alleged Wal-Mart used its retirement plan as a weapon in its war...

January 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A John Kerry presidential administration would include a "director of personal economic security" who would work to protect workers pensions and retirement benefits,...

January 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Democratic presidential candidates criticized the US Department of Labor's (DoL) proposal in which it offered employers ways to escape paying overtime wages to newly eligible...