Sentences with phrase «employee pension protection»

Hagens Berman represents plaintiffs / victims in securities and investment fraud, product liability, tort, antitrust, consumer fraud, employment, whistleblower, intellectual property, environmental and employee pension protection cases.

In Halifax the party adopted policy recommendations that include universal pharmacare, a guaranteed minimum income, an environmental bill of rights, and an employee pension protection strategy.

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In 2006, Congress passed the Pension Protection Act, which helped raise participation rates by clarifying language on default opt - ins for employees.

Brandon pointed out that past conventions have only ever added (and never once taken away) benefits like public - employee pensions and environmental protections.

Instead, the employees will keep their pension plan, and have won significant wage increases, improvements in health and other benefits, and additional rights and protections including new anti-discrimination provisions and the installation of a «panic button» system which will protect the safety of employees from harassment and assault.

To be sure, there are well - funded efforts advocating around the subject of a constitutional convention, including unions who fear that delegates might revise pension protections for public employees.

«It amazes me that, at a time when unemployment is at record levels, schools are being shuttered, workers are being laid off, pensions are being lost, that the Senate President is rolling back basic protections for hardworking transgender government employees,» said Dávila.

While the Pension Protection Act has required employers to allow employees with company stock in the plan to gradually diversify out of it, a recent Vanguard study of its clients showed that 8 % of employees had more than 80 % of their account balances in company stock, revealing a lack of understanding of the risks of not diversifying.

ERISA has certain protections for employees of companies where the pension plan becomes insolvent.

The lineup includes a Structured Investment Option, which offers your employees the potential for market gains up to a specified limit along with some protection against some market losses.4 We also offer the Personal Income BenefitSM, a «pension - like» benefit that provides guaranteed withdrawal payments for life and may help employees address inflation, longevity, and market volatility concerns.5

The code also stipulated that private sector providers of outsourced services had to employ transferring employees on their existing terms and conditions (including protection in relation to pension benefits) and that new personnel who were required to work on a local authority contract alongside staff transferred from the local authority should be employed on terms «overall no less favourable» than those enjoyed by the transferred staff.

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With little access to information and inadequate disability pensions, workers and their families knew that as hard - working, honest employees they deserved better: being treated with respect and dignity, job security or full compensation, annual cost of living increases, the right to diagnosis and treatment by their own doctors, and adequate safety protection.

In a judgment handed down today, 28 July 2016, the Court of Appeal has decided to refer questions to the EU Court of Justice on whether limitations on the compensation paid by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) to former employees of insolvent employers are consistent with Directive 2008 / 94 / EC (the Insolvency Directive).

2The Pension Protection Act of 2006 limits the death proceeds an employer can exclude from income when the insured does not meet the definition of a highly compensated employee or of a highly compensated individual, or the death benefit is not used to purchase the insured's ownership interest in the business.