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Welfare Plans Edition This issue is free, thanks to today's sponsor Compensation Resource Group (Would your company like to sponsor an issue?) June 19, 2000 Congress OKs Digital Signatures Excerpt: "By an overwhelming margin, the House approved digital signature legislation, legalizing the electronic completion of many transactions that now must be made on paper. Approval in the Senate is expected to follow." (The Standard) Supreme Court Holds That Fiduciary Can Sue a Nonfiduciary Party-in-Interest Under ERISA Excerpt: "In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has held that a plan fiduciary can maintain an action against a nonfiduciary party-in-interest under ERISA § 502(a)(3) for the nonfiduciary's participation in a prohibited transaction." (RIA Pension & Benefits Week) Partner Benefits on Rise; Carmakers Accelerate Trend for Gay Couples Excerpt: "Some companies make similar coverage available to unmarried heterosexual couples, but the automakers have limited their benefits to domestic partners of the same sex." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Workers Would Prefer More Play Time to More Money Excerpt: "A growing number of American workers say they would rather have an extra day off every two weeks rather than an extra day's wages or salary." (BoulderNews.com) Interview With Securities Analyst: Investing in Health Insurance Stocks Excerpt: "I think that most, if not all, of the major players recognize that they have not been able, and are not going to be able, to control medical cost trends anywhere near as well as they and many industry observers once thought. And as a result of that realization, they are raising prices, and raising them aggressively." (Newsletters.com) Subscribe to the Retirement Plans Edition, too (click) Copyright 2000 BenefitsLink.com, Inc. Feel free to forward this email to friends, colleagues or clients, if no fee is paid to you and the email is forwarded in its entirety. Thanks! BenefitsLink is a trademark of BenefitsLink.com, Inc., published by Dave Baker with much help from Mary Hall and lots of friends. To subscribe (free): visit https://benefitslink.com/newsletter - or the person desiring to subscribe can send an email to listmanager@postmastergeneral.com, with this as the subject of the email: subscribe BLwelfare We have an online archive of prior issues at http://www.postmastergeneral.com/cgi-bin/archive.pl?list=BLwelfare |
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