Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Buckley
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 28, 2004No. 02-17094PublishedCited by 272 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:
When W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc., (Gore) closed its Phoenix, Arizona, electronic parts plant in 1998, many of its employees lost their jobs before they qualified for an additional year of vesting and benefit accrual credit under Gore’s stock ownership and pension benefit plan (Plan). Gore’s Plan used the long-standing “elapsed-time method” to calculate vesting and benefit accrual. That method counts the period of time the employee is employed, and not the number of hours an employee has worked during a given twelve-month period.
Two classes of Gore’s former…
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