Legal Opinion
Ameritech Benefit Plan Committee v. Communication Workers of America, Annette Foster-Hall, and Bernadette Bernabei v. Ameritech Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 13, 2000No. 98-3096, 98-3101, 98-3102PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
This case is about the present consequences of the way in which Ameritech Corporation (and its predecessors) computed time for purposes of its pension plan, early retirement, and similar benefits, when the reason for an approved absence from work was pregnancy rather than any other short-term disability. (For the sake of convenience, we refer throughout to the company as Ameritech, even though Ameritech did not come into being until 1984. The difference in corporate identity makes no difference to the outcome of this case.) After the passage of the Pregnancy…
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