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June 27, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is sticking with its plan to downgrade eight of its 23 district offices and add two local...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A measure approved by the US House of Representatives says that United Airlines will not be allowed to default on remaining pension plans,...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has turned down a request by a group of former employees of a paper and lumber company to certify as...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has issued an advisory opinion stating that a state leave law similar to the Family and Medical...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A survey by Kibble & Prentice of nearly 250 Washington state employers shows the rate of increase in health plan costs has decreased...

June 24, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A second set of regulatory guidance about nonqualified deferred compensation programs under Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code 409A could be out by August,...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - JPMorgan has agreed to acquire Neovest Holdings, Inc., a provider of trading technology and direct market access.

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge has reduced a workplace discrimination jury verdict against Wal-Mart by $4.7 million while bemoaning the fact that a legal cap...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A recent survey of HR executives conducted by AON Consulting showed that 43% of those surveyed have adopted a formalized disease management or...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Department of Labor (DoL) has won a restraining order against two Rockville, Maryland companies and their owner preventing them from acting...

June 23, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - California state authorities have fined Oakland, California-based Kaiser Foundation Health Plan $200,000 for having patient health information accessible on a Web site for...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR) - Richard Goldblatt, president of Chicago Spectro Service Laboratory, Inc. is required to restore $626,215.20 to the company's profit sharing plan, according to a...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The nation's high court has turned down a request by a group of San Antonio firefighters to review an appeals court ruling that...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal appeals court has thrown out an injunction barring the trustee of United Airline's employee stock ownership plan from selling its shares...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR) - The redesigned member web site for Great-West Healthcare was launched today and will enable members to more quickly and easily evaluate health care...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Legislation introduced Wednesday in Congress would require local officials to gather and publicly release the number of employees that companies located in their...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR) - Recent surveys and studies show US workers may face a more secure retirement than workers from other countries, reports the Wall Street Journal.

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Some 62% of companies in a recent survey said they had implemented employee wellness programs, while 33 % said they were considering such...

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workplace immigration law enforcement has dropped markedly since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

June 22, 2005 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A Florida federal court jury has cleared Charlotte County officials of charges they fired a county secretary who complained about being sexually harassed.