Hochalter v. City of Gillette

KITE, Justice.

[11] The city of Gillette (Gillette) adopted a Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual which indicated Gillette would provide certain health and life insurance benefits to long-term employees following retirement. In 20083, Gillette adopted a revised manual which provided a limited amount of money to an irrevocable trust to fund the insurance benefits to those qualified employees and eliminated some benefits previously offered. Ten employees (Employees) filed a class action against Gillette claiming it was bound by the terms of the first manual. They sought a declaratory…