Case Overview
Keller Rohrback and co-counsel represent Plaintiffs, former United Airlines (“United”) employees, in this class action lawsuit that alleges United violated ERISA or Illinois state law with respect to promised severance benefits.
In 2017, United recognized that employees were reluctant to retire because they did not want to miss out on enhanced retirement, medical, and other benefits that the airline periodically offered through voluntary separation programs. In an effort to reduce its workforce, United promised its employees that if they retired and within three years thereafter it offered any severance program providing better benefits than the employee received at their retirement, those employees would receive benefits under that superior program. Plaintiffs retired within that three-year period, but were wrongfully denied benefits under one or both of two severance programs offered during that time -- (1) United’s Voluntary Separation Program 2 (“VSP2”) offered in June 2020, and/or United’s Frontline Voluntary Separation Leave Program (“VSL”) offered in January 2021.
Plaintiffs seek payment of benefits and all other relief and damages due them under ERISA on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated former employees of United. In the alternative, Plaintiffs assert claims under state law for breach of contract and seek specific performance and all other available relief in law and equity.
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