Compliance

April 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has weighed in on how small "small business" is under federal discrimination laws, with implications for employers and workers...

April 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman who claims she was sexually harassed when a co-worker grabbed her buttocks has lost her second legal skirmish in a ruling...

April 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) policy from an Illinois town couldn't be enforced because it was not properly described in the...

April 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to consider a case brought by younger workers who claimed that taking away their post-retirement benefits while...

April 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer accused of not preventing an employee from riding in the bed of a pickup truck, which ultimately led to his untimely...

April 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors that haven't yet complied with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) now have a better notion of...

April 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Refusing to dismiss the case, a federal judge has agreed to hear the arguments of an overweight New Haven, Connecticut man claiming discriminatory...

April 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An Ohio appeals court has signed off on a lower-court ruling that ERISA bars an employee breach of fiduciary duty suit over whether...

April 17, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer hit with a sexual harassment lawsuit alleging that a worker was forced to quit because of intolerable circumstances can't then mount...

April 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer's incentive-based stock option plan is not an ERISA plan since its purpose was to provide current, rather than, retirement income.

April 16, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The parties to a high-profile sex discrimination lawsuit involving Morgan Stanley spent much of the day Tuesday closeted with a federal judge in...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The administrator of two money purchase pension plans violated its fiduciary duty by loading up on life insurance policies and should repay $1.3...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A woman once married to a former Ford Motor Company employee has lost another skirmish in her ongoing legal battle for proceeds from...

April 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) has issued clarification on plan loans impacted by provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of...

April 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) has introduced a bill to allow tax-exempt entities, such as pension funds and university endowment funds, to invest in...

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - United Airlines ESOP trustee State Street Bank & Trust wants a bankruptcy court to rethink its decision to limit sales of the company's...

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has taken over the underfunded pension plan for a group of Washington, D.C hospital workers, the agency announced.

December 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A female employee at Salomon Smith Barney, who filed for arbitration in connection with "Boom Boom Room" alleged sexual hostility, has won nearly...

December 17, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's private pension insurer is stepping in to take over another pension plan - its largest ever - and another employer professes...

December 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -A federal appeals court has reignited a lawsuit alleging that oil companies violated federal antitrust laws by sharing salary data on managerial, professional and...