Compliance

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...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Federal regulators have proposed a technical amendment to bring the effective dates of interim final rules for the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA)...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A coalition of patient groups and privacy supporters is trying to block a new federal health privacy law from taking effect next week...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Tobacco companies were not accountable for the increased costs of healthcare expenses due to smoking habits of other healthcare participants.

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) -Republican leaders have backed Senator Pete Domenici's (R - New Mexico) payroll tax-holiday proposal as a way to end the congressional deadlock over an...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Senate Republicans blocked a measure to allow some railway pension fund assets to be invested on Wall Street, calling it an attempt to...

November 28, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - With Enron Corp.'s troubles multiplying by the day, industry insiders say that the solution to the problem of company stock is not necessarily...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Maintaining different early retirement plans for employees of Puerto Rican and continental United States plants does not violate Title VII of the 1964...

April 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Pension reform champions Portman and Cardin are at it again, putting forth new legislation that could have an impact as significant as their...

April 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers at Mercedes-Benz' Vance, Alabama plant will be paid $687,588 in back wages associated with time spent changing uniforms over the past two...

April 10, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lutheran Medical Center has agreed to pay $5.4 million as part of an out-of-court settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit over allegations a...

October 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A New York employer that loaned all its profit-sharing plan assets to a currency exchange has been forced to make the plan whole...

October 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned aside efforts by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) to block the United Steelworkers of America from getting...

September 16, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor (DOL) on Friday threw its support behind legislation that would establish federally regulated Association Health Plans (AHPs), making health...