October 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - President Bush took advantage of his weekly radio address Saturday to focus on some of the problems confronting the nation's private pension system.
October 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service on Friday announced cost-of-living adjustments applicable to dollar limitations for pension plans and other items for tax year 2003...
October 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors will today get some official guidance on dealing with new regulations on participant blackout notifications.
October 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Three groups have targeted Tuesday to launch a major public-relations effort designed to rally support for a new rule requiring mutual funds to...
September 8, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge in Michigan has turned away efforts by a pension plan administrator to move to federal court a lawsuit filed by...
August 21, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - ERISA doesn't prohibit an insurance policy exclusion for drunk-driving accidents even if the exclusion was just in draft form, a judge has ruled.
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...
June 21, 2002 - The US House of Representatives plans to vote on a measure Friday to make permanent the retirement savings provisions of last year's Economic Growth...
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)...
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...
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...
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...