Employer Contributions, Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA)

Taming the Tariffs: Employee Benefit Issues for Employers During Times of Economic Uncertainty – Group Employee Terminations

Foley & Lardner LLP on 4/22/2025

Many companies are scrambling to quickly assess how to reduce the business impact of the upheaval to U.S. manufacturing and trading with the recent onslaught of tariffs threatened or imposed by the United States and the...more

Seventh Circuit Holds Withdrawal Liability Cannot Be Based on Extra-Contractual Contributions

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 4/11/2024

In Bulk Transp. v. Teamsters Union No. 142 Pension Fund, No. 23-1563, 2024 WL 1230236 (7th Cir. Mar. 22, 2024), the Seventh Circuit held that the contributions used to calculate an employer’s withdrawal liability may include...more

Union Pension Fund Can’t Have It Both Ways: Federal Appeals Court Orders Fund to Repay Employer $2 Million

Fisher Phillips on 3/29/2024

In a classic man-bites-dog turnaround, a federal appeals court ordered a Teamsters pension fund to return approximately $2 million in withdrawal liability payments to an employer that had stopped contributing in 2005. The...more

Court Orders Employer to Jail Unless He Complies with Union Fringe Benefit Fund Audit Request

Fisher Phillips on 12/21/2023

Employers are far behind the eight ball when union fringe benefit funds come knocking to audit or collect claimed delinquent contributions – and a recent decision from an Oregon federal judge means that employers could face...more

EEOC Wins Summary Judgment Against Urbana School District No. 116 in Age Discrimination Case

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 11/15/2023

Federal Judge Agrees with EEOC that School District Discriminated Against Older Teachers and Orders District to Pay over $51,000 in Damages - CHICAGO – A federal judge ruled in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment...more

Unionized Oregon Employers Have Until March 31, 2023, to Collect Employee Contributions to Paid Leave Oregon

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/22/2023

Oregon employers with collective bargaining agreements (CBA) have until March 31, 2023, to begin deducting employee contributions to Paid Leave Oregon, the Paid Leave Oregon Advisory Committee clarified on March 1, 2023....more

This Week at the Ninth: Sports, Drugs, and Pensions

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 8/14/2020

This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions concerning the employer-employee relationship. In the first, the Court let the lawsuit against the NFL for its negligent handling of drug distribution to its injured...more

“Grossly Excessive” Arbitration Award Overturned Due to “Evident Material Miscalculation”

Carlton Fields on 3/13/2020

An arbitration award rendered pursuant to section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) was overturned upon a finding that the award was “grossly excessive” and based on an “evident material miscalculation.” ...more

Understanding This Pension Rule May Help Contractors Avoid Costly Liability Assessments

Stoel Rives - Ahead of Schedule on 9/11/2019

If you use union employees in your projects, you may contribute to a multiemployer pension plan—perhaps a few cents or few dollars per hour worked. However, some employers are surprised to learn they could be assessed with...more

Are Employers Required to Make Contributions to Union Pension Fund for “Bonus” Payments?

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 4/11/2017

Hammering Nails Construction has a CBA (collective bargaining agreement) with Local 1 of the United Brotherhood of Widgetmakers (“Union”). After a pension fund audit, Hammering Nails received a letter claiming it owed...more

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