Cattin v. General Motors Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

FEIKENS, Chief Judge.

This action is brought by two former employees (“plaintiffs”) of defendant General Motors Corporation (“GM”), who allege that GM wrongfully terminated their entitlement to early retirement benefits and improperly modified its offer of special recognition stock to them. Plaintiffs originally claimed that GM’s termination of early retirement benefits violated the vesting and nonforfeiture requirements in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1053(a) (1982), and constituted a breach of contract. After GM moved…