Compliance

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...

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,...