Many employers in the retail, construction, service, entertainment, manufacturing and transportation industries contribute to multiemployer defined benefit pension plans (MEPs) on behalf of their unionized employees. A large...more
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Employee Benefits ,
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) ,
Interim Final Rules (IFR) ,
Multiemployer Plan ,
Multiple Employer Plan (MEP) ,
PBGC ,
Pension Reform ,
Pensions ,
Retirement Plan ,
Withdrawal Liability
On March 28, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Sun Capital Partners III LP v. New England Teamsters & Trucking Industry Pension Fund, No. 10-10921 (D. Mass. 2016) delivered a surprising...more
The Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (the MPRA), as part of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2015 (the Act), H.R. 83, was passed by the House on December 11, 2014, the Senate on December...more