Compliance

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...

January 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An internal review of the trading policies of the money manager roster of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has pinpointed at...

January 7, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Firing Christian employees for posting anti-homosexual Bible quotes in their cubicle is not a violation of the employee's rights.

January 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California state judge has blocked a March 2004 voter referendum that would have tossed out a law requiring employers to provide health-care...

January 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's accounting rulemakers could put the always hot-button issue of pension accounting rules back on the table in a big way at...

January 6, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Participants have to prove their plan assets are being held in a trust for their benefit in order to shelter those assets from...

June 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California state law may protect workers over 40 from discrimination in hiring, firing, demotion, and suspension, but not in the awarding of benefits,...

June 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have extended the moratorium on employment tax withholding on stock plans.

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The union representing Hawaii state police has sued the Hawaii state legislature for balancing the state budget with $346.9 million that the union...

April 25, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation that would ban workplace discrimination against homosexuals is headed back to the Senate floor, following approval yesterday by the Senate Health, Education,...