Employer Contributions, Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA), Employee Benefits

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

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

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

Employer Contributions › Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) › Employee Benefits

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

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

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

Understanding This Pension Rule May Help Contractors Avoid Costly Liability Assessments

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

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