Sentences with phrase «benefit pension plans caused»

If the shift away from defined - benefit pension plans caused the increase in mortality, then one would expect to see the opposite relationship between education and mortality: there would presumably be an increase in mortality among the more - educated in this group of Americans than among the less - educated, given that it is the more - educated who have disproportionately lost defined - benefit retirement pensions.

Not exact matches

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Case and Deaton speculate that the shift from defined - benefit pension plans in the U.S. to defined - contribution plans (such as the 401 (k)-RRB- may have caused the upward shift in mortality rates.

The first is around some of the overblown rhetoric going around right now (epitomized by this David Brooks column that was Klein's inspiration in the first place) suggesting that public - sector defined benefit pension plans are causing massive holes in state budgets.

to take any action otherwise prohibited under subsections (a), (b), (c), or (e) of this section where age is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of the particular business, or where differentiation is based on reasonable factors other than age; to observe the terms of a bona fide seniority system or any bona fide employee benefit plan such as a retirement, pension, or insurance plan, which is not a subterfuge to evade the purposes of this Act, except that no such employee benefit plan shall excuse the failure to hire any individual; or to discharge or otherwise discipline an individual for good cause

In July 2012, the province introduced new «grow - in» rules that provide a pension bridge to workers who have a defined benefit (DB) pension plan and are fired without cause.