Compliance

December 4, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court let stand a Texas case allowing pension plan beneficiaries to waive their ERISA rights under federal common law.

April 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A multi-employer 401(k) plan or other retirement account maintained by an employee leasing company will be treated as any other tax-qualified plan by...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - CBS Corp's cash balance pension plan conversion did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) or the Age Discrimination in Employment...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has ruled a company is not required to rehire recovered drug addicts who claim their addiction is a disability.

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Municipal employees in California have the right to choose between filing on-the-job discrimination claims within their employers' internal grievance procedure or directly through...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Presidential contender US Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) is expected to propose a new payroll deduction to finance a new program allowing workers to...

December 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A strict 4 p.m. close on mutual fund trading and enhanced disclosure requirement are what the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) thinks...

December 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has settled a lawsuit with the fiduciaries of a now bankrupt Ohio-based employer - who have waived...

December 2, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court is expected to further clarify when employers can be sued for sexual harassment in a case involving a former...

February 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Defined benefit plan sponsors may finally be getting close to relief on getting a pension benchmark for funding calculations that more accurately measures...

February 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Two adult children of a smoker run over by a truck while on a smoke break at her Pennsylvania company's freight terminal have...

February 12, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An HIV-positive postal worker got a second chance from a recent federal appeals court ruling to sue the US Postal Service (USPS) for...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Shareholders suing WorldCom and its investment banks won a legal victory when a federal judge ruled that news reports about Salomon Smith Barney's...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's highest court has agreed to decide a case involving two former Illinois construction laborers - and the issue as to whether...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A wireless phone service provider has agreed to fork over $4.7 million in back wages to call center employees who worked before the...

January 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Department of Labor (DoL) officials now have the transaction blackout Enron imposed on its retirement plan participants under a microscope to see if...

January 24, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Muslim woman, claiming she was rejected for a job in the jewelry department of a Georgia Sears store because of her religiously-mandated...

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that would make over-the-counter medicines tax deductible.

December 1, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee with a demonstrated pattern of both absences and tardiness needed to do more than leave a voice mail to provide sufficient...

November 26, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers in California are liable for sexual harassment by supervisors, but the damages can be limited if the harassed employee has not taken...