Legal Opinion
Kerkhof v. MCI Worldcom, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 7, 2002No. 01-1236, 01-1237PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Chief Judge.
Janny Kerkhof and her former employer, MCI WorldCom, Inc. (“WorldCom”), cross-appeal from the district court’s judgment resolving several disputes about employee benefits claimed by Kerkhof. Kerkhof was hired in May 1995 as a program coordinator in the Vienna, Virginia, office of the telecommunications company MFS International, Inc. (“MFS”), which later merged with WorldCom. She then became eligible not only to receive salary bonuses of up to 20 percent but also to participate in two then-existing employee stock benefit plans.
One plan, the MFS 1993 Stock Plan (“the MFS…
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