Compliance

June 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Although government officials remain mum on the issue, business groups say they expect the US Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...

June 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The House of Representatives easily approved legislation tearing off the expiration date of the retirement savings provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax...

June 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female Deutsche Bank executive, citing a 1999 business meeting where scantily clad Marilyn Monroe look alikes "publicly fondled" male colleagues, sued the...

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) wants to allow trustees of investment trusts to be able to hold securities...

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate today rejected a bid to tie health benefits for retired steel workers to trade promotion authority legislation.

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should not limit the number of retirement plan loans per participant and should loosen rules on participants who...

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - American Airlines has settled a discrimination suit by, among other things, agreeing to do a better job of keeping disabled job applicants informed...

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ex-employee's assertion that his former employer breached the provisions of an employment contract by deceiving him about his job responsibilities is not...

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) has introduced a bill he says will make it significantly easier for American workers to unionize.

September 5, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has issued guidance for underfunded single-employer pension plans to determine if they must issue a 2003 Participant...

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees can use pretax dollars to pay for cafeteria-style health plan if they're automatically enrolled, and if they can choose between health coverage...

May 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversy over cash-balance conversions shorting retiring workers heated up as a Congressman released a list of 13 US offending companies, which the...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department are requesting public comment on the mortality tables used to determine current defined benefit...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) can be sued for a breach of fiduciary duties surrounding its calculation of pension benefits for former...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's ERISA-governed health plan's escape clause - that provides the plan is not responsible for paying a participant's health costs if that...

September 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The "perfect storm" of pension problems has washed up a $5.7-billion deficit on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's (PBGC) doorstep as of July...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Republicans moved to shut down committee votes yesterday in retaliation for the rejection of a federal appeals court nominee. That temporarily delayed...

March 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Responding to the Enron debacle, which saw many employees losing their retirement savings through investments in Enron stock, a Senate committee passed legislation...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Church-sponsored pension plans would be able to invest in collective trusts under a bill set for a vote in the US House of...

September 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Kentucky public library's firing of a female employee for wearing a necklace with a cross pendant to work has been found unconstitutional.