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Severance Plan Was Subject to ERISA, and Properly Denied Benefits to Employee Who Didn't Return Deleted Files
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Link to more items from this source
July 12, 2016
"Affirming summary judgment against an employee who was denied severance pay because he failed to return company property, the Fifth Circuit first held that ERISA governed the severance plans because they required more than a single lump-sum payment but involved ongoing plan administration and discretionary decisions on eligibility and amount of pay. On the merits, the appeals court agreed with the lower court that the plan allowed the employer to deny severance benefits on the ground that the employee failed to return company property (the deleted computer files) upon termination." [Gomez v. Ericsson, Inc., No. 15-41479 (5th Cir. July 8, 2016)]

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