Legal Opinion
Michelle Antolik, Plaintiffs-Appellees/cross-Appellants v. Saks, Incorporated, Doing Business as Younkers, Inc., Defendant-Appellant/cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 14, 2006No. 06-1046, 06-1047, 06-1141PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Chief Judge.
Many salaried employees of Younkers, a department store division of Saks, Incorporated, lost their jobs in October 2002 when Saks consolidated the Younkers division into its Carson Pirie Scott division. Though Saks paid severance benefits, fifteen former Younkers employees commenced this class action in state court seeking additional severance benefits allegedly promised in an October 27, 2000, letter Saks distributed when it adopted an employee welfare plan entitled the 2000 Change of Control and Material Transaction Severance Plan (the “COC Plan”). Saks removed the case.…
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