M & K Employee Solutions, Inc. v. Trustees of IAM Nat. Pension · ¶16

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) provides “comprehensive regulation for private pension plans.” Connolly v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 475 U. S. 211, 214 (1986). One type of pension plan that ERISA regulates is a Multiemployer Pension Plan (MPP). An MPP is a plan “to which more than one employer contributes” and is “maintained to fulfll the terms of collective-bargaining agreements.” Concrete Pipe & Prod ucts of Cal., Inc. v. Construction Laborers Pension Trust for Southern Cal., 508 U. S. 602, 605 (1993); see 29 U. S. C. § 1002(37).

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