Compliance

May 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate has passed the Restoring Earnings to Lift Individuals and Empower Families (RELIEF) Act by a 62-38 margin, sending the pension reform-bearing...

May 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An unfair labor practice complaint that would have given union organizers access to workers inside Wal-Mart stores was dismissed by the National Labor...

April 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The SEC has told a small group of Willamette Industries employees to cease and desist in their opposition to a hostile takeover scheme...

April 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Republican-led house rebuffed a Democratic alternative and instead approved a measure modeled after President Bush's response to the Enron debacle.

April 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - While US House of Representatives considers the Republican-based Pension Security Advice Act, Democratic House leaders stated they would file an alternative bill.

April 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Having just reached a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Burlington Northern will now have to fend off an EEOC investigation of...

March 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - On Saturday, President Bush signed legislation that will extend jobless benefits and provide billions of dollars in business tax cuts - as well...

March 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A House subcommittee has scheduled hearings this week on federal and state laws governing the provision of mental health coverage in employee health-care...

March 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The IRS has not yet issued February's 30-year Treasury bond rate, which sponsors of defined benefit plans, and their actuaries use to calculate...

March 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Virginia Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit by a woman against her employer after a manager there allegedly assaulted her for...

February 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to settle an employee lawsuit with, among other things, a payment of $140,000 to the plaintiff and community groups,...

February 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission may delay a new rule that would require markets and brokers to report on the quality of their...

February 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Labor Department wants to replace Enron executives on the administrative committee that oversees the firm's retirement plans, according to published reports.

January 11, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In a decision split along ideological lines, the US Supreme Court has barred the reimbursement of health benefit costs from a subsequent tort...

January 23, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider if a health insurance plan can sue under ERISA for a recovery of benefits paid...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Today the Treasury Department is expected to provide some clarity on the acceptable mechanics for cash balance conversions - and the final result...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers who sponsor benefit plans will get an added reminder from the 2002 version of the Form 5500 series disclosure documents to sign...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With a federal judge's order approving a nearly $300-million settlement in a series of lawsuits involving allegations against a now-defunct Oregon investment firm,...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com)- The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service have released new proposed regulations on the application of the pension plan age discrimination rules to cash...

December 10, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Maryland Citizens Health Initiative has proposed a plan to provide health coverage to the state's uninsured residents, according to a Baltimore Sun...