Compliance

July 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives would allow the use of pre-tax employee contributions to buy company stock options, while...

June 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Senate is expected to take up the patients' bill of rights today, but Senate Republicans yesterday were threatening to hold up debate,...

June 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's largest employer of women has been charged with discriminating against its female employees in what is potentially the largest class action...

May 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Another plan sponsor may soon find itself in court fending off a class action suit from Sprenger & Lang, the law firm currently...

May 31, 2000 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Richard Curtis, Executive Director of the $700 million Ohio Highway Patrol Retirement System defined benefit plan, has been battling the Securities and Exchange...

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The only female governor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has sued her former employer over claims she and other women were...

May 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - NASA has agreed to pay $3.75 million to 100 black workers who claim the space agency denied them promotions because of their race.

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 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...

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...

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...