DuPont Family Worker Seeks Redo Over Domestic Staff Pension Plan

An employee of the duPont family petitioned the Third Circuit to rethink its recent decision holding that a trust intended to provide retirement benefits for the family’s domestic staff isn’t a pension plan governed by federal law.

The appeals court’s September decision, which blocked workers from bringing ERISA claims over the trust’s funding and management, improperly focused on a single member of the duPont family and failed to appropriately weigh the relationships among other family members and their responsibilities in connection with the trust, plaintiff T. Kimberly Williams said in a rehearing petition filed Wednesday.

This decision will have ...