Compliance

April 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors trying to get up to speed on compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), take heart....

April 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Seeing no connection between her duties and her disability, a court ruled against a transfer to an above-ground job for a subway token...

April 7, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have pulled back proposed regulations governing how employers can prove that a cash balance plan is not discriminatory because of protests...

June 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A federal judge has relied on the Casey Martin ruling to extend the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act to a 19-year-old...

June 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? President Bush gave a vote of confidence to a PBOR proposal on Wednesday, while the Senate continued to debate amendments to S. 1052,...

June 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A co-worker cannot be sued for slander over criticisms made to supervisors about job performance, according to a federal appeals court ruling.

May 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite last minute jostling and being tied to a sometimes controversial tax package, pension reform finally got through Congress Saturday, on its way...

April 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Mississippi man working as an independent contractor, who sued two insurance companies after they cut off his disability payments, has lost his...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US District Court judge has upheld a decision by the Prudential Employee Savings Plan to develop a written policy restricting frequent "market...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Both employers and employees have two new labor law resources at their disposal courtesy of the US Department of Labor (DoL): an online...

April 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Unions collecting fees from non-member public-sector employees must have their financial statements independently audited, a federal appeals court ruled.

March 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's failure to ensure an employee received an updated copy of their life insurance plan summary has resulted in a $62,250 judgment...

March 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US House of Representatives will soon discuss a Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) amendment bill, allowing employees to take time off instead...

March 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Arizona appellate court says that the state is illegally taxing federal workers on contributions to their pension plans - and has been...

April 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Allegations of racial discrimination at Southern Co, Georgia Power Co and two subsidiaries have been tossed out by an Atlanta federal judge.

April 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - For Arkansas employers it's a case of "better late than never" as the Natural State finally embraced the retirement provisions of the Economic...

April 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Supreme Court is set to decide if a former employee's spam e-mail to 30,000 Intel Corp' workers was Constitutionally protected free...

April 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States House of Representatives Education and the Workforce subcommittee on Workforce Protections, has approved the Family Time Flexibility Act.

March 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator John Breaux (D-La.) has offered a bill that would force the Labor Department to adopt a new ergonomics standard within two years,...

February 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A multiemployer defined benefit pension plan did not illegally cut back on retiree benefits when it dropped a cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) after the retirement...