Court Says Former Nabisco Employees Can’t Get Pension Credit for Layoff Periods

Eighteen women who used to work for Nabisco Inc. are not entitled to pension credits for payments they received under the terms of a sex discrimination class action settlement, which the women argue were payments received on account of periods of layoff, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled July 14 (Anderson v. Bakery & Confectionery Union & Indus. Int’l Pension Fund).

Granting a multiemployer pension fund’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, Judge William H. Yohn Jr. said a regulation implementing the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 C.F.R. § 2530.200b-2(a)(2), ...