Compliance

January 22, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In protest of the Bush administration's plans to rewrite the "white collar" exemption provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), US Senate...

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has, once again, extended the deadline for GUST determination letter applications that had been due January 31.

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US House Ways and Means Committee Chairman William Thomas (R - California) has sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary...

January 21, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is pushing forward with plans to revamp Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provisions, despite objections from a Republican...

January 14, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA gives those who put plan fiduciaries into place an obligation to to keep an eye on the work of those they appoint...

January 20, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Terminating an employee for personal use of a corporate credit card may have been pretextual, meant to obfuscate the company's interference with the...

January 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though a Hawaii man's injuries requiring an artificial hip operation came about because of injuries suffered in a bar fight on a...

January 16, 2004 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In his annual State of the Union address, President Bush is expected to revive a proposal allowing younger workers to invest a portion...

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) - Having exhausted all the remedies available through the insurance plan provider and ultimately winning the case, a plan participant cannot file a suit...

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...

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.