International Women’s Day and Week Highlight Administration’s Efforts to Improve Social and Economic Opportunities

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Cincinnati, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor obtained a default judgment on March 8, 2004, ordering the president of defunct Mershon Metal Maintenance, Inc. in Cincinnati, Ohio, to restore $36,094 owed to the plan. The department sued Joseph Mershon for failing to forward employee contributions to the plan.

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New York, New York - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit to obtain a court order appointing an independent fiduciary to manage the Edel America Records, Inc., 401 (k) plan in Manhattan and distribute more than $63,000 to 15 participants.

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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today is requesting public comments on proposed changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Filing Acceptance System (EFAST) to capitalize on web-based technology that promotes more cost-effective and efficient ways to serve America’s citizens.

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WASHINGTON—Assistant Secretary of Labor Ann L. Combs today told Congress that the Bush Administration is attacking health scams through a three-pronged strategy designed to protect workers and their families from abusive health insurance schemes.

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WASHINGTON—Alan D. Lebowitz, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), today presented testimony on the department’s oversight of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The TSP benefits more than three million participants and beneficiaries covered by the retirement plan.

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WASHINGTON—Alan D. Lebowitz, deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), today presented testimony on the department’s oversight of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The TSP benefits more than three million participants and beneficiaries covered by the retirement plan.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the fiduciaries of Tulsa-based Provider Medical Trust for taking excessive fees and misrepresenting the trust’s solvency thereby causing the health trust millions of dollars in losses.

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Columbus, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a court order authorizing Team America, Inc., of Worthington, Ohio, to appoint an independent fiduciary to manage and terminate the defunct company’s 401(k) retirement savings plans after the plans were left without a fiduciary.

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WASHINGTON—For their efforts to promote equal employment opportunity, nine companies and organizations were honored today by the U.S. Department of Labor at an annual awards ceremony hosted by the department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

Three types of awards—the Secretary of Labor’s Opportunity Award, Exemplary Voluntary Efforts (EVE) Awards, and Exemplary Public Interest Contribution (EPIC) Awards—were presented to recognize innovative workplace programs and initiatives that increase equal employment opportunity for the American workforce.

NEW DELHI, India—The Department of Labor (DOL), the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the government of India today launched a $40 million project to combat exploitive and hazardous child labor in India.

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Washington, DC - Ann L. Combs, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), today announced guidance on the duties of employee benefit plan fiduciaries in light of alleged abuses involving mutual funds.

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Boston, Massachusetts - Trustees of the Rhode Island Laborers' Legal Services Plan have agreed to restore $318,181 to the plan to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor for alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the federal law that protects private sector employee benefit plans.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) published in the Federal Register the 2003 Form M-1 annual report for multiple employer welfare arrangements (MEWAs). MEWAs are arrangements that offer medical benefits to the employees of two or more employers or to their beneficiaries.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The former owner of Complete Health System, Inc. of Vicksburg, Mississippi, (formerly Haworth Home Health Agency, Inc.) was sentenced on January 23, 2004 to four months in prison, four months of home confinement, probation and restitution to the company’s 401(k) plan.