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A nationwide crackdown on 401(k) abuse has resulted in the recovery of nearly $22 million for 40,800 workers, President Bill Clinton announced today.

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The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule governing the timing of deposits by employers of participant contributions to Savings Incentive Match Plans for Employees (SIMPLE plans) involving IRAs.

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The working groups of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will hold public meetings on April 8 and 9 in Room N-5437 A&B, U.S. Department of Labor Building, Third and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20210.

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The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking public comment on whether to adopt a proposed nonenforcement policy for Form 5500 annual reports filed by multiemployer plans providing post-retirement health and other welfare benefits.

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The U.S. Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration and the Internal Revenue Service today announced an extension for filing employee benefit plan annual returns/reports due to the severe weather and flooding in the Midwest and southern United States.

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Financial institutions may not use employee benefit plans as bargaining chips in negotiations to sell their subsidiaries or divisions, warned the U.S. Department of Labor's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration (PWBA).

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Contact Name: Joseph Menez
Phone Number: 606.578.4680

The trustees of both the profit sharing and the defined benefit pension plan for Equity Planning Corporation in Beachwood, Ohio, were ordered to restore to both plans a total of $65,754 in a consent order and judgment obtained today by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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A Grand Rapids, Mich. court ordered the former welfare plan trustee of Local 312 of the Painters and Allied Trades Joint Apprenticeship Fund in Kalamazoo, Mich. to make restitution and sentenced him to four months of house arrest, three years of probation and 120 hours of community service.

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The Labor Department announced today it will pursue additional charges against managers of Chicago-based group health and welfare funds who allegedly used assets to pay expenses for cell phones and health club memberships while as much as $5 million in health and welfare benefits went unpaid for some 3,000 workers.

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ILAB Press Release: Labor Department To Fund Elimination Of Child Labor In Soccer Ball Industry [02/13/1997]

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The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will hold its first public meeting of 1997 on Thursday, March 6, at the U.S. Department of Labor's Frances Perkins Building. The session will begin at 1:00 p.m. in the Secretary of Labor's Conference Room, S2508.

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The U. S. Labor Department today proposed broadening a class exemption for purchases and sales of foreign currencies between employee benefit plans and banks or broker-dealers.

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ESA Press Release: Reinvention Improves Protections for Whistleblowers and Farm Workers OSHA, ESA, Division to Swap Certain Duties Feb. 3 [01/30/1997]

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Acting Secretary of Labor Cynthia Metzler today named Joyce A. Mader of Washington, D.C.,as the chairman of the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans. Also named as vice chair of the Council was Carl S. Feen of New Haven, Conn.

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ESA Press Release: Labor, Justice Join to Combat National Origin Discrimination [01/08/1997]

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In a move to protect legal workers' opportunities and rights, two federal agencies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) today that will help prevent national origin discrimination in the workplace while curtailing the national problem of undocumented workers.

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A reference guide to help employees and employers understand the effects of recent legislative changes on health plans is being issued by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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ILAB Press Release: U.S. NAO Again Moves To Review Workers Representation Issues In Mexico [12/10/1996]

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OIG Press Release: Guilty Plea By Former Marine Engineers Union Representative Ends Case Involving 16 Union Officials [11/12/1996]