Compliance

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A leasing subsidiary of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company will shell out $2.3 million as part of a settlement of a racial discrimination lawsuit by...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad has settled a federal lawsuit from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that challenged its secret genetic testing...

April 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A hearing by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education will focus on less onerous alternatives to the...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge upbraided the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for not trying harder to settle the racial discrimination claims of a...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last week the Senate Finance Committee approved the Affordable Education Act of 2001 that would, among other things, make permanent the tax-free treatment...

February 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - During the second day of House hearings on the Enron debacle, Congressmen expressed interest in a professor's call for greater employee involvement in...

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over the weekend President Bush rolled back several government policies favored by organized labor, restoring those put in place by his father.

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six union pension funds will be re-paid $18 million from loans they made to a former Arizona governor who orchestrated a failed real...

January 7, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit alleging constructive discharge - finding that it was reasonable for an employee to assume that...

January 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An ex-Coca-Cola Enterprises employee is seeking class-action status for a discrimination suit, charging that he was wrongfully dismissed after he injured his back,...

December 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Department of Labor has issued detailed new procedures for handling health-insurance claims in government regulated employer health plans.

December 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Federal District judge signed a $6.8 million consent decree, resolving a suit brought against Wal-Mart Stores by the US Equal Employment Opportunity...

December 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a brief in the US Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit opposing a tentative...

December 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says it will withdraw a proposed standard banning smoking in virtually all workplaces, according to the...

December 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) will cover the pension benefits of the 2,100 employees and retirees of bankrupt Alamac Knit Fabrics.

November 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Court of Appeals judge has ruled that a jury should decide in an IBM non-compete case, according to the New York Law...

November 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Lawyers are blaming a 1999 Ohio Supreme Court decision opening the possibility of employees collecting liability claims from their employer's insurance carrier for...

November 6, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Early elections results show that Oregon's Measure 23 has been defeated with 79% of the state's voters opposing the proposal.

October 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A US Senate bill passed out of committee this week would help state and local governments find and treat people with mental health...

October 18, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) ? Defined benefit plan administrators should assume that the liberalized dollar limit under Section 415 remains in effect for plan years after December 31,...