Compliance

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - More than 50 employers with defined benefit plans have formed their own lobbying group to do publicity about the DB arrangements and to...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, securities regulators issued a report showing that nearly one in three transactions in front-end load mutual funds didn't get the breakpoint...

November 3, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State and government plan sponsors have been almost uniformly ecstatic about recent IRS regulations - but the deferral of sick and vacation pay...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Converting to a cash balance plan with a "wear-away" provision to cut off participants' anticipated benefits does not violate ERISA's prohibition on forfeiture...

March 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), looking down the barrel of an $18.3-million budget shortfall, is considering sending its 2,783 employees on an...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has decertified the remaining 25% of a class action involving promised retiree medical benefits at Unisys, ruling that the remaining...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned away claims by a participant in the Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) that the fund violated ERISA...

February 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of more than 70 lawmakers has sponsored a bill to help provide health insurance to more Americans.

January 23, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Forget about the Super Bowl, the emergence of Puxatawny Phil or Valentine's Day, when Congress reconvenes today the nation's legislators will be turning...

October 31, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee who is not enrolled in the company health plan, and thus not a participant, does not have standing to sue for...

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)—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,...