US - Verizon retirees have sued the telephone company alleging they had been illegally transferred and, as a result penalized, to the pension plans sponsored by Idearc, a now bankrupt company.
The class action complaint alleged: "In mid-November 2006, after each plaintiff had been retired for at least ten years, they together with more than 2,000 others were involuntarily reclassified an...
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