Compliance

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A "subsequent good act" of hiring an older worker after firing another worker alleging age discrimination may be submitted as relevant evidence in...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Because payments made to executives hinged on a change of company ownership, they are considered golden parachute distributions even though the contracts calling...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A jobs bill now pending in the US House of Representatives would also have a variety of impacts on employee benefits.

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors who thought the Bush Administration's retirement savings proposals were DOA are in for a surprise next year.

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer has announced plans to assume responsibility for the pension of nearly 23,000 workers and retires of bankrupt Pillowtex...

October 30, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal officials have filed suit against executives of an Indianapolis firm for their failure to prudently manage the company's health plan and leaving...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Business is "booming" at the nation's pension insurer, but that could spell trouble for the private pension system.

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for the office manager of a Philadelphia law firm to pursue her lawsuit over allegations she...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—A hearing has been set for Nov. 4 to examine the allegations in the mutual fund trading scandal and the need for new legislation to...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A bill implementing a temporary fix to the problem of replacing the 30-year Treasury bond rate for use in pension plan liability calculation...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) facing more challenges on the road ahead, the General Accounting Office (GAO) sees some room for...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—With a vote of 24 to 15, the House Ways and Means Committee moved the bill HR 2896, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2003,...

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has scheduled a vote on the Pension Stabilization Act for October 29.

October 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com)—Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Connecticut) outlined a plan to introduce stronger regulations on mutual funds to safeguard investments of the average middle-class investor, something he says...

October 29, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan determination letters seem to be descending on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in droves, but the IRS appears to be handling the...

October 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Restructuring an employee's job while on leave does not interfere with a worker's Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) rights.

October 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company's summary plan description (SPD) without explicit directions to domestic partners to file an affidavit to qualify for survivor's benefits was deficient...

October 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Members of the US Senate Finance Committee are considering a pair of bills regulating company-owned life insurance (COLI) policies - one backed by...

October 24, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer assigning exempt status determinations to employees unfamiliar with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) were found to be in violation of...

October 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Terminating an employee for poor performance does not illegally interfere with the employee's Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) rights.