Compliance

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The United States Supreme Court unanimously held that employer-sponsored health care plans need not defer to an employee's doctor when deciding whether to...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Despite providing sufficient evidence to back a Title VII claim that being homosexual led to workplace harassment, a judge ruled that the alleged...

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel has scheduled a hearing for June 3rd to discuss the accounting treatment of stock options.

May 28, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An oral promise of severance benefits is not allowed for an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) governed plan, and therefore state law...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors looking for signals regarding the direction of upcoming regulatory actions can glean some insight from today's Federal Register.

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employee that "enabled or materially augmented the ability of the employee to create a hostile work environment" can be classified as a...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State worker rights to 12 weeks of family leave have been upheld by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An at-will employee is not entitled to a common-law duty of reasonable care when an employer conducts a mandatory drug test that ultimately...

May 27, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) has obtained a consent order barring trustees of the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) of Portage, Indiana from...

May 23, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Discrimination claims made by a white, Jewish, blonde woman from Moldavia are little more than her own judgments about the bigoted intent of...

May 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Presumption of death does not warrant benefit payments to the estate of a retirement plan participant's widow, since the estate could not provide...

May 22, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The trustee of the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) is the owner of the stock and therefore, payments made by a company for...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury has ruled the dismissal of seven Hispanic and black United Parcel Service (UPS) workers was not racially motivated.

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Four former employees of the state of Washington's Krispy Kreme doughnut shop operator have sued, claiming they were discriminated against because they were...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Defined contribution plan fiduciaries will be expected to strictly follow the dictates of the plan document about dividing up expenses among participants, the US...

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Gilroy Food and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have reached a settlement of alleged disability discrimination.

May 21, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Senate committee has passed out a bill, which would protect individuals from discrimination in hiring, employment, and health insurance on the...

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Withdrawals made from plan annuity contracts to repay a default on a loan, regardless if the contracts were assigned by mutual mistake between the...

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A pension fund's state law claims for negligence against an actuary whose error in judgment resulted in the underfunding of the pension plan...

May 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of tire company workers has emerged victorious in its long legal battle over whether their employer lied about their future medical...