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Taken to its extreme, the case could be interpreted as effectively foreclosing participant claims based upon how a well-funded defined benefit pension plan is invested.

A 'large employer' is one with the equivalent of 50 full-time employees within a calendar year. Sound simple enough? Making sure which side of the line your company falls on can be trickier than you might think.

Any employer who maintains the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s 300 Logs for workplace injuries and illnesses have only days left to post their annual summary from 2012.

A plan sponsor may use the Voluntary Correction Program to correct a failure to timely adopt a written 403(b) plan; plan sponsors should mail their submissions to the IRS Service Center in Covington, Ky.

Everyone from the health department to the IRS will be looking over employers’ shoulders, making sure they are compliant with health care reform. 2013 needs to be a year of careful preparation.

Employers should be using the 2013 plan year as their basis for collecting information relevant to their compliance obligation, according to guidance from the IRS.

The Supreme Court announced it will review cases involving the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act and the validity of California’s Proposition 8.

Voters in Colorado and Washington pass initiatives to decriminalize recreational marijuana use by adults but laws won’t affect employer drug policies.

There may be unintended consequences of the 408(b)(2) fee disclosure regulations, says AmeriFlex executive

If there is uncontroverted evidence that the employee would have been discharged in the absence of a leave request, employers have nothing to fear from termination, based on a recent 10th Circuit ruling.