This Week: Michigan, Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON—To ensure full employer compliance with the Department of Labor’s new overtime security rules, Department of Labor officials will be meeting with members of the human resource community this week in Michigan, Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. To date, Department of Labor officials have held over 60 presentations, forums, and briefings in over 20 states as part of an extensive compliance assistance outreach.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the availability of a $1.5 million technical assistance grant designed to help fulfill the Bush Administration’s ten-year goal of ending chronic homelessness among persons with disabilities.

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St. Paul, Minnesota - The U. S. Department of Labor sued the former chief executive officer of D.B. Welliver & Co. Inc. of St. Paul, Minnesota, for illegally transferring assets from the company’s retirement savings plan to his personal bank account.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The owner and president of Commercial Marketing Services Inc. (CMS) of Lawrenceville, Georgia, has pleaded guilty to embezzling from the company’s profit sharing plan. The criminal charges were based on an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA).

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Newark, New Jersey - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued to appoint an independent fiduciary for the abandoned savings and investment plan of Sequel Concepts Inc. of South Plainfield, New Jersey, which will distribute more than $1 million in plan assets to participants and terminate the plan.

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Dallas, Texas - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Mallscapes Inc. of Dallas and its owner for failing to timely remit and forward to the corporation’s SIMPLE IRA plan contributions withheld from employees’ paychecks.

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Miami, Florida - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) compliance assistance seminar, “Getting It Right – Know Your Fiduciary Responsibilities,” will take place in Miami, Florida, on June 17, 2004 at the Sheraton Biscayne Bay, 495 Brickell Avenue.

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Durham, North Carolina - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the owner of Norwood Electronics Inc. of Durham, North Carolina, for failing to forward $8,417 in employee contributions and interest to the Matlack Medical Imaging Inc. 401(k) Plan.

WASHINGTON—U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao has selected “You’re Hired! Success Knows No Limitations!” as the official theme for October’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

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Washington, DC - U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced the appointment of five persons to three-year terms on the 2004 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans.

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Vacuum Research Corporation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the company’s chief executive officer for failing to restore employee contributions to the company’s 401(k) plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced final rules implementing the notice requirements under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) for employees, employers and plan administrators.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced final rules implementing the notice requirements under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) for employees, employers and plan administrators.

Washington—U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today urged federal government agency heads to continue to enthusiastically support a Bush Administration program that has successfully placed hundreds of college students with disabilities in summer and permanent employment.

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Boston, Massachusetts - The U.S. Department of Labor sued the plan sponsor and the trustee of the Northeast Display Inc. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan of Worcester, Massachusetts, for failing to forward over $65,000 in employee contributions to the plan.

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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor has sued the former trustees of the Votenet Solutions Inc. 401(k) plan and trust in Washington, D.C., for failing to forward employee contributions to the company’s retirement plan.

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Chicago, Illinois - The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment requiring the trustee of the Belgium, Wisconsin-based Belgium Foundry Acquisition Company Inc. 401(k) plans to restore $60,434 in delinquent employee contributions with interest to the union and non-union plans.