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Taming the Tariffs: Employee Benefit Issues for Employers During Times of Economic Uncertainty – Reducing or Suspending Qualified...

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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

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Second Circuit Renders Important Decision on Vested Retiree Benefits

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In a significant ruling on February 5, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit addressed the enforceability of an arbitration provision in an expired collective bargaining agreement (CBA) in the case of Xerox...more

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Fourth Circuit Approves Award of Estimated Delinquent Contributions

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Multiemployer benefit plans generally require contributing employers to submit “remittance reports” that identify the employees that performed covered work, the type of work performed, and the amount of time worked. Plans...more

Cozen O'Connor

Illinois Insights: An update from Cozen O'Connor (1/23)

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Reforming Tier 2 pensions could cost the state $30 billion, actuary says “A new Illinois pension reform bill would increase contributions to the state’s three largest retirement systems by a total of nearly $30 billion...more

Conn Maciel Carey LLP

Game Changer for Pension Withdrawal Liability: Seventh Circuit Orders Return of Withdrawal Liability Payments

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Last Friday, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s decision upholding an arbitration award requiring an employer to pay more than $2.3 million in...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Pension Fund Crisis is Starting to Boil

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Early this morning the White House announced that $36 billion was being allocated from the American Rescue Plan (i.e., the 2021 Coronavirus relief package) to shore up the Teamster’s Central States Pension Plan....more

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Second Circuit Finds No Successor Liability for ERISA Withdrawal Where Employer Did Not Acquire Unionized Facility or Employees

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On January 27, 2022, in New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund v. C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., the Second Circuit joined the Third, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits in applying the doctrine of successor...more

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Sixth Circuit Addresses Actuarial Assumptions Regarding Withdrawal Liability

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In Sofco Erectors, Inc. v. Trustees of the Ohio Operating Engineers Pension Fund (“Sofco”) (September, 28, 2021), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long awaited decision regarding the appropriateness of interest...more

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Third Circuit Affirms $96 Million Withdrawal Liability Award Against Renco

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In a major win for the Steelworkers Pension Trust (SPT), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit upheld an award totaling $96 million in withdrawal liability and additional statutory penalties against the Renco Group,...more

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When Dr. Strangelove Met Jimmy Hoffa

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Collective Bargaining Exemption to create a win-win situation for business owners and employees. ...more

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Understanding This Pension Rule May Help Contractors Avoid Costly Liability Assessments

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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

Franczek P.C.

Illinois Supreme Court: IFT Lobbyist Entitled to TRS Pension for One Day of Substitute Teaching

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In a split decision issued earlier this month, a majority of the Illinois Supreme Court held that a career lobbyist for the Illinois Federation of Teachers (IFT) union who worked one day as a substitute teacher could receive...more

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Understanding Public Agency Participation in ERISA Multiemployer Pension Plans

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Many California cities and public agencies negotiate with — and reach memorandums of understanding with — their union bargaining partners on a regular basis. In some cases, these unions are local police or firefighter...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Seventh Circuit Says: Clear Error Standard Applies To Court Review Of Withdrawal Liability Arbitrator’s CBA Interpretation

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Seventh Circuit has now applied a clear error standard of review to a withdrawal liability arbitrator’s interpretation of a collective bargaining agreement, thus enhancing the role of the arbitrator in...more

Franczek P.C.

Recent Seventh Circuit Decision Finds That Multiemployer Pension Withdrawal Liability Can Automatically Transfer to Asset...

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In a recent decision that has important implications for purchasers of assets that come with a multiemployer union pension plan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held in Tsareff v. ManWeb Services, Inc., 794...more

Robinson+Cole Manufacturing Law Blog

A Troubling Future Part One:  Teamsters’ Pension Rescue Plan

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Two significant developments in the multi-employer pension world emerged in September, developments which could give manufacturers concern.  While this is not the time to panic (we have plenty of time to panic), readers...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Central States Pension Fund Submits Plan for Reducing Benefits

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On Sept. 25, 2015, the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Plan (Central States), submitted to the Department of the Treasury a plan for reducing benefits under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014...more

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