Legal Opinion
Deschamps v. Bridgestone Americas, Inc. Salaried Employees Retirement Plan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 12, 2016No. 15-6112PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
After working for ten years at a Bridge-stone plant in Canada, Andre Deschamps transferred to a Bridgestone facility in the United States. Prior to accepting this position he expressed concern about losing pension credit for his ten years of employment in Canada. But upon receiving assurances from members of Bridgestone’s management team that he would keep his ten years of pension credit, Deschamps accepted the position. For over a decade, Deschamps received various written materials confirming that his date of service for pension purposes would be…
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