WASHINGTON—Human service agencies in California, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts and Oklahoma have been selected to take part in training and technical assistance programs for people with disabilities, the U.S. Labor Department's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) announced today.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to storm damages from Hurricane Ivan in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

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Portland, Maine - The Compliance Assistance Seminar sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the Maine Division of Insurance, will take place in Portland, Maine, October 13-14, at the Double Tree Hotel, 1230 Congress Street.

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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 2004 Form 5500.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the release of a final regulation that will provide employee benefit plan fiduciaries with guidance to help them preserve workers’ retirement savings.

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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner of defunct Western Rubber, Inc. of Goshen, Indiana, to recover employee contributions that he failed to forward to the company’s self-insured health plan.

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Detroit, Michigan - The president of W. K. Industries Inc. of Sterling Heights, Michigan, and the trustee of the company’s profit sharing plan have restored $630,000 to the plan as repayment for a prohibited loan from the plan to the company’s president, according to a consent order and judgment obtained by the U.S. Department of Labor.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that Wachovia Corporation, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., has agreed to settle findings of compensation discrimination against 2,021 current and former female employees. The agreement settles the department’s allegations that Wachovia engaged in compensation discrimination against female employees for six years.

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Cleveland, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment removing Classic Stone Industries, Inc. in Cleveland as a fiduciary of the company’s 401(k) plan and appointing an independent fiduciary to manage the plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to storm damages from Hurricane Frances in 42 Florida counties.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today announced an extension of the deadline for filing Form 5500 and Form 5500 EZ annual report/returns due to storm damages from Hurricane Frances in 15 North Carolina counties.

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Washington, DC - The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans and its three working groups will convene September 21-23, 2004, in Room N3437 A-C at the U.S. Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC.

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Salt Lake City, Utah - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Learnframe, Inc., its chief executive and financial officers, and its board of directors for failing to deposit more than $100,000 in 401(k) contributions into the employees’ pension accounts.

Minneapolis, Minn., Richmond, Va., and Bridgeport, Conn. Receive Telework Grants

WASHINGTON U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today awarded more than $2.4 million in grants to help fund initiatives that will increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities in Connecticut, Minnesota and Virginia.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a preliminary injunction removing the trustees of the Paramount, California-based International Union of Industrial and Independent Workers Benefit Fund (IUIIW) and permanently barring them from service to the fund.