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January 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has submitted a set of proposed revisions to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to the...

January 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington has determined that a health plan administrator should be reimbursed for benefits it...

January 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Under an actuarial change calling for member government agencies of the Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) to pre-fund their retiree cost-of-living increases, the...

January 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Those with individual retirement accounts (IRA) tend to keep that money where it is for potential use later on in their retirements, according...

January 28, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Employees of Kellogg's of Battle Creek willing to declare themselves as non-smokers are eligible for a $180 cut in health-care premiums as part...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal judge has ruled that the administrator of a profit-sharing plan was entitled to demand that a participant reimburse $231,065 for benefits...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Standard & Poor's has launched the S&P Dividend Opportunities Indices, two new indexes designed to "provide investors with exposure to high yielding stocks...

January 25, 2008 (PLANPSONSOR.com) - Kathy Curtis has been named director of marketing for Mutual of Omaha's Retirement Services area.

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The one-year average rate of return reported by college and university endowments participating in a survey by the National Association of College and...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Steve Hutchins, owner of Steven E. Hutchins Architects of Jacksonville, Florida, got a nasty surprise when he got to work on Monday.

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - Playing a few tunes in the office may make employees mellow out, but a careful choice of style and volume is critical, a...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - A federal appellate court has upheld a $108,000 jury award to a deaf former FedEx package handler who did not receive proper accommodations...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.COM) - California's highest court has ruled that while the state's Compassionate Use Act of 1996 gives medical marijuana users a defense against criminal charges,...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A report from the National Association of Counties (NACo) provides brief overviews on the major issues surrounding Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) statement...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, announced the launch of the SSgA Core Edge Equity Fund,...

January 25, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The National Retail Federation (NRF) has presented Congress and the Bush Administration with a comprehensive package of recommendations on how to reform the...

January 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced the settlement of a racial harassment lawsuit for $465,000 and significant remedial relief against...

January 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is cutting the base pay of 7,600 computer technicians by 15%, the Wall Street Journal reports.

January 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a long-term disability plan administrator's denial of benefits for a drug addicted participant whose...

January 24, 2008 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many large U.S. companies do not plan to disclose performance goals for their executive pay programs in their 2008 proxy statement, despite Securities...