Butz v. Rednour

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• holding no job termination under a severance policy where the plaintiffs continued employment with the purchaser of a plant
• distinguishing between severance pay as an “employee welfare benefit plan” available only after termination of Cons. Court No. 00-01-00027 Page 46 employment and payroll as “general asset compensation during employment”
• courts may not label “unreasonable” administrative interpretations that are consistent with legitimate purposes of the plan
• causes of action based upon state statutory severance pay claims and common law breach of contract and estoppel claim preempted
• “payroll practices refer to general asset compensation during employment; severance pay ... occurs after termination of employment”
• no “job termination” occurred where plaintiffs continued to work at same jobs in division sold by defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).