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Pension eligibility based on company purchased

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LaurieDSalem

Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? U.S. law, I believe / Arizona local office

My large employer bought out several companies - my employer was purchased a few years ago. The employer has a pension plan, but excludes employees that came from specific purchased companies, including mine (Company B). So I could spend the next 20 years and still not be eligible for any type of pension, although a co-worker may have come from Company D and be eligible for their pension?

If this is correct, would an employee need to quit and be re-hired to be eligible for their pension plan? Employment laws are quite unbelievably biased in favor of employers, but this seems so discriminatory.
 


cbg

I'm a Northern Girl
"Legacy employees of Company B" are not a protected class under the law; therefore, it is not illegal discrimination.

As to whether quitting and being rehired would make you eligible for the pension, only someone who has read the pension plan in its entirety could answer that.

The employer would have no legal obligation to rehire you if you did quit - you understand that, yes?
 

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