Legal Opinion
Becker v. Mack Trucks, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 21, 2002No. 00-4414PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROTH, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to decide whether § 510 of the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1140, applies to rehiring decisions. Plaintiffs are former employees of defendant Mack Trucks, Inc., who lost their jobs when Mack closed its Allentown plant in 1987. Some plaintiffs had vested pension rights at the time they were laid off. Others merely had credit for past service. In 1997, when the economy had improved, Mack needed to hire workers for its Ma-cungie plant. By this time, all the plaintiffs had either exhausted or forfeited any…
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