Compliance

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ?Labor Department officials have "substantially liberalized" rules governing how much sponsors can charge back to their plan for participant communications, a consultant group says.

June 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - After a full day of discussion Wednesday, the Senate will likely move closer to some consideration of the patients' bill of rights legislation...

May 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) Burlington Northern Santa Fe has agreed to pay 36 employees a total of up to $2.2 million to settle a genetic-testing case with the...

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday on trends in retiree health benefits.

May 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Speaking at the AICPA National Conference on Employee Benefits In Washington DC, David Walker, Comptroller General at the US General Accounting Office, discussed...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's pension insurer lost nearly $2 billion last year - but still has a hefty cushion to work with.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A California jury has awarded $30 million to six female supermarket workers who claim they were sexually harassed with charges that a male...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of Gillette Corp. are now free to sell the company shares in their retirement plans.

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A dreadlocked United Parcel Service driver who refused company requests to wear a cap while at work was fired because he had refused...

April 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has dismissed the Communications Workers of America and two of its officials from a lawsuit brought by nine former Verizon...

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employers can require employees to take job-related disputes to arbitration rather than to court, according to the Supreme Court.

March 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in favor of ERISA's preemption over state law.

February 21, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A divided (5-4) Supreme Court ruled that states cannot be sued by individuals seeking money damages under the Americans with Disabilities Act of...

January 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Beginning April 16, mutual funds will be required to disclose standardized after-tax returns and pretax performance, according to a new rule of the...

January 21, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor has offered plan sponsors additional guidance in deciding which plan expenses can be paid from plan assets - and...

January 9, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CALPERS), has been sued by the California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) for an injunction against a...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An office worker who ended customer communications with the words "have a blessed day" was not entitled to a preliminary injunction against her...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? With decimalization tightening trading spreads, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has voted to extend ?safe harbor? protections for soft dollar trades to...

December 20, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted to require corporations to show the number of outstanding stock options, warrants and rights, and the...

November 8, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has reinstated an age discrimination suit by a health care audit consultant, ruling that potentially discriminatory remarks by a...