In plaintiffs’ ERISA action against the Pension Fund claiming that they should have received pension credit for the time they spent as instructors at a Chicago trade school, district court’s grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment is affirmed as the plan language provides for pension credit only if an employer has made contributions to the fund on an employee’s behalf.     

Read Perry v. Sheet Metal Worker’s Local No. 73 Pension Fund, No. 08-2024

Appellate Information

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division

Decided October 27, 2009

Judges

Before:  Easterbrook, Chief Judge, and Williams and Sykes, Circuit Judges

Opinion by Williams, Circuit Judge

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