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Houston, Texas - Houston-based Easy Does It, Inc. and its owners have been sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for failing to properly manage the company’s profit sharing plan and failing to distribute plan assets to more than 20 participants. Easy Does It, Inc. provided alcohol and drug abuse treatment services.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Labor’s National Administrative Office (NAO) today agreed to review allegations that the government of Mexico failed to enforce its law protecting the rights of workers at two garment factories located in Mexico.

“Effective enforcement of labor laws is fundamental to the labor principles to which the U.S., Canada and Mexico are committed under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation,” said NAO Acting Director Lewis Karesh. “To this end, the Labor Department intends to conduct a thorough review.”

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Chicago, Illinois - Executives of defunct Omni Circuits, Inc., of Glenview, Illinois, were ordered to repay $23,996 to the company’s health, dental and life insurance plans and to distribute that money to 72 participants, according to a consent judgment and order obtained recently by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Houston, Texas - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a consent judgment and order requiring the Houston area dental practice of Fadi A. Tatari, DDS, and its owner, to repay $9,296.81 in delinquent employee contributions owed to the Anderson Dental Group 401(k) plan.

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order and judgment requiring the trustee of the health plan of Lake County, Ohio-based E & W Services, Inc., to repay $31,336 directly to participants as restitution for failure to forward employees’ premiums and payments for health benefit coverage.

Report Compares Spending by Governments and International Financial Institutions on Basic Education and Child Labor Efforts in 73 Developing Countries

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Minneapolis, Minnesota - The U.S. Department of Labor asked a federal court to appoint an independent fiduciary to manage and terminate the 401(k) plan of Plymouth, Minnesota-based Riscomp Industries, Inc.

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Chicago, Illinois - Executives of defunct Omni Circuits, Inc., of Glenview, Illinois, were ordered to repay $23,996 to the company’s health, dental and life insurance plans and to distribute that money to 72 participants, according to a consent judgment and order obtained in January by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Washington, DC -  The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced a technical amendment extending the interim final rules under the Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA) to December 31, 2004.

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Alexandria, Virginia - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the trustee of the RVJ International, Inc. 401(k) plan for failure to forward employee contributions to the company’s plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The former president of Standard Coosa Thatcher (SCT) Yarns, Inc. pled guilty in federal district court in Tennessee to 31 counts of mail fraud, embezzlement, graft, conspiracy to launder money and money laundering that resulted in over $11 million in losses to the company’s pension plan.

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New York, New York - The U.S. Department of Labor sued to remove the plan trustee and appoint an independent fiduciary for the Oven Digital, Inc. 401(k) plan of New York, New York after the plan was abandoned by the plan’s fiduciary. The independent fiduciary will be responsible for distributing plan assets to participants and terminating the plan.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor sued Dieter Bryce, Inc. of Gaston, South Carolina and its executives for failure to forward employee contributions to their retirement plan and misusing plan assets to pay the operating expenses of the firm.

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Chicago, Illinois - Under a consent judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor, the owner and chief executive officer of Relco Locomotives, Inc., was removed as a fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) plan because he failed to forward employee contributions to the plan in a timely manner.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) today announced the release of the 2003 Form 5500, tips to avoid common filing errors and frequently asked questions (FAQs) for small pension plans that use the audit exception.

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San Francisco, California - The U.S. Department of Labor will hold a first-of-it’s-kind workshop to help employers and pension plan administrators better comply with federal pension law. The workshop will be held on January 15, 2004 at the Pasadena Convention Center.