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New Pension Priorities in Bankruptcy and Insolvency Are Now Reality

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This is an update of our original blog dated April 24, 2023. Bill C-228, An Act to amend the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Pension Benefits Standards Act, 1985 received Royal...more

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Pension Schemes Act 2021: The Impact of New Criminal Liability on Restructuring and Corporate Transactions

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THE PENSION SCHEMES ACT 2021 - The Pension Schemes Bill 2019-20 (“the Bill”) was first published on 16 October 2019. Following the dissolution of the 2017-2019 Parliament at the end of the 2019 session, the Bill was...more

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The Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act Proposes a Bailout of Struggling Multiemployer Pension Plans

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House Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) recently introduced legislation that seeks to rescue multiemployer pension plans (MEPs) facing insolvency. Entitled the Emergency Pension Plan Relief Act (EPPRA), the bill...more

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Rocking the boat – Pension Schemes Bill proposals may risk destabilising future restructurings

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The Pension Schemes Bill [HL] 2019-20 (Bill) was re-introduced before Parliament on 7 January 2020. Among its proposed amendments to the Pensions Act 2004 (Act) are new criminal  offences for failing to comply with a...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

Senate Republicans Release Proposal for Multiemployer Pension Reform

On November 20, Republican Senators Charles Grassley and Lamar Alexander – chairmen of the committees with jurisdiction over pensions – jointly released the Multiemployer Pension Recapitalization and Reformation Plan (the...more

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PBGC’s Multiemployer Insurance Program Faces Insolvency, While Single-Employer Program Improves

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The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s Multiemployer Insurance Program is close to collapse, while its Single-Employer Insurance Program continues to improve. We discuss implications and predictions for both programs over...more

Perkins Coie

Multiemployer Pension Underfunding: How to Protect Your Company

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As a result of a declining union workforce, bankruptcies of employers contributing to multiemployer pension plans (MEPPs), and tax rules that prevented MEPPs from developing sufficient reserves, many MEPPs have become...more

Fisher Phillips

Troubling Court Decision Sends Withdrawal Liability Warning To Employers

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A federal appeals court has handed multiemployer pension plans a blank check to assess increased withdrawal liability against employers exiting a plan. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Westrock RKT...more

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Treasury Department Rejects Central States Pension Fund's Benefit Reduction Proposal

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As we discussed in a prior alert, in September 2015 the Teamsters’ Central States Pension Fund submitted a proposed “rescue plan” to the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury). The Central States Pension Fund is severely...more

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Central States Pension Fund Submits ‘Rescue Plan’ Seeking Approval to Reduce Benefits

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On September 25, the Central States Pension Fund (one of the largest multiemployer/union pension funds in the country) submitted to the U.S. Department of Treasury a proposed “rescue plan,” which would allow the fund to...more

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Multiemployer Pension Plans - Withdrawal Liability is Mounting

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There are approximately 1,400 multiemployer pension plans and nearly 10 percent are projected to become insolvent within the next 15 years. Plan insolvency will trigger a termination and the assessment of withdrawal...more

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