Employee Benefits
Jun. 22, 2012
Post-retirement health benefits are a promise of deferred compensation
Post-retirement benefits are not revocable gifts, as some jurisdictions are trying to argue. By Robert Bezemek and David Conway of the Law Offices of Robert J. Bezemek PC
Retirement health benefits are constantly in the news as public jurisdictions seek to avoid promises they made to their current and retired employees. In disavowing their promises, they are impairing contractually vested rights protected by the contracts clauses of the state and federal constitutions.
State law has protected the reasonable expectations of public sector retirees since 1917, when the state Supreme Co...
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