Compliance

November 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A group of grocery chain workers lost its bid for US Supreme Court review of a decision forcing them to fund union organizing...

October 24, 2001(PLANSPONSOR.com) - US Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao issued recommendations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that will reduce the risk of anthrax exposure...

September 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has postponed the effective date of new reporting requirements on nonqualified stock option gains until 2003.

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The controversial sale of Hershey Foods is temporarily on hold while a Pennsylvania appeals court mulls over legal issues raised by both sides.

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Oregon state senate has approved a proposal to stop offering benefits under the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) to new workers.

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - As expected, with its bankruptcy buyer unwilling to shoulder the obligations of its pension fund, Polaroid retirees now find themselves under the protection...

September 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A promise to make severance payments was too vague to create an obligation to do so, according to a federal appeals court.

August 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? A wife attacked at work by her spouse has sued her employer for failing to take steps to protect workers from spousal abuse.

August 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com-The full Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will meet September 12 after this year's working groups have completed hearing testimony from...

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court ruled that pension trustees were not out of bounds when they cut out cost of living adjustments for certain...

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deaconess Waltham Hospital may not have given Larkin Watson IV information about its long-term disability plan when he became eligible, but that doesn't...

August 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The first-ever federal protections for patient privacy will give patients some additional protections, but critics say they don't go far enough.

August 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wealthier Americans can bridge the "advice gap" by hiring an investment advisor. But few working families can afford such a luxury on their...

August 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Wealthier Americans can bridge the "advice gap" by hiring an investment advisor. But few working families can afford such a luxury on their...

July 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A White House commission on Social Security reform met today amid demonstrations by protestors who say that the panel is exaggerating the system?s...

July 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service is soliciting public comment on a final regulation on qualified plan rollovers, according to a notice published on July...

June 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - 401(k) plan trustees can't sue Merrill Lynch in Florida state court for improperly recommending participants buy shares of Merrill's growth fund, a federal...

June 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US appeals court reinstated a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed her employer improperly fired her after learning that her son...

June 12, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has introduced a new bill that attempts to give defined benefit plan sponsors a bit of extended relief.

May 24, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA) now offers online compliance help for plan sponsors and providers at a new Web site.