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The U. S. Department of Labor has sued trustees of the National Electrical Benefit Fund in Rockville, Md., for making an imprudent loan of over $6 million in pension assets and for an imprudent purchase of shares in a limited partnership in 1992 and 1993.

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The U. S. Department of Labor sued a Harris County, Tex. company and its 401(k) plan official for failing to forward to the plan employee contributions withheld from their paychecks, resulting in losses to the participants of $6,986.

Defendants in the case include the Pin Oak Medical/Surgical Associates, located in Houston, the company owner Dr. Lynn R. Gibbs, who also was the plan trustee, and the plan.

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The trustee of two Lexington, Massachusetts-based employee benefit plans and two officers of the now-defunct Auto Engineering Limited Partnership of Lexington have agreed to restore a total of $115,000 to the company’s employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) in order to conclude several lawsuits filed by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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The U.S. Department of Labor today sued two Minneapolis-based companies and their retirement plan official for self-dealing violations of federal pension law which resulted in losses to the plan’s participants.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has sued now-defunct Ro-Cel Electronics Inc. of Pittsburgh and the trustees of the company’s 401(k) plan for improperly failing to timely deposit employee contributions into the plan.

Ro-Cel, an electronic alarm and security firm, created the plan in 1994 to accept voluntary employee contributions and employer contributions. Although Ro-Cel ceased operations in 1997, the plan has not been terminated.

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The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner of Columbus, Ohio-based TennOhio Transportation Co. for failing to deposit employee contributions into investment accounts of the company's 401(k) plan and keeping plan money in accounts of TennOhio and related companies.

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

ESA Press Release: Frito-lay Inc. Agrees to Pay $225,000 in Back Wages to 233 Minority Applicants for Discrimination Found at Louisiana Plant [04/21/1999]

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ILAB Press Release: Labor Department Ends Review of Freedom of Association Complaint Against Canada [04/21/1999]

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The Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans will hold meetings for its three working groups on May 5 and 6. All sessions will be held at the Department of Labor’s Frances Perkins Building at 200 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC, in Room N3437A-B.

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The U. S. Department of Labor’s ERISA Section 3(40) Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee will hold public meetings on April 20 and 21 to continue its discussion of the process and criteria to be used in developing a proposed rule on whether an employee benefit plan is established or maintained under a collective bargaining agreement.

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A Federal District Court in Miami, Fla. has appointed an independent trustee to manage and terminate the 401(k) plan of Hollywood, Fla.-based Carolina Fitness Equipment, Inc. under a settlement agreement obtained by the U. S. Department of Labor.

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A Texas state court today ordered the owner of Dallas-based Programmed for Success to pay $4,044.30 in restitution, fined him $750 and sentenced him to12 months of probation for misappropriating pension contributions owed to the company’s retirement plan.

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The U. S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order requiring the trustees of the pension, annuity, education and welfare funds of Local 363 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters located in Howard Beach, N.Y., and TAP Electrical Contracting Service, Inc., a contributing employer to the plans, to pay more than $1.4 million to the funds as restitution for improper reimbursements made to contributing employers for legal expenses and back wages.

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Superior Engine Rebuilding Co. of Houston and its owners have been sued by the U.S. Department of Labor for withdrawing more than $344,000 from the company’s profit sharing plan for use by themselves and to pay creditors of the company.

The Superior Engine Rebuilding Co. was formed in Houston to rebuild motor vehicular engines. The company’s profit sharing plan covered as many as 29 participants and had assets of $880,367 as of Jan. 31, 1992.

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ESA Press Release: "Salad Bowl" Growers Get the Message about Child Labor [03/25/1999]

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ILAB Press Release: Labor Department Issues Report on Gains in Fight Against International Child Labor [03/25/1999]

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ILAB Press Release: Herman Announces Major Grants to Fight Child Labor in Africa [03/17/1999]

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The U.S. is providing $7.5 million to fund programs to eliminate exploitative child labor in Africa. Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman announced the grants today in her keynote speech to the United States-Africa Ministerial.

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The U.S. Department of Labor today filed a lawsuit against trustees of two pension plans sponsored by the Sutersville Lumber Company for violating federal pension law by transferring over $500,000 in profit sharing plan assets to the company to pay off a bank loan, which is guaranteed, to its employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).