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- Reported and committed to finance
- Print number 1571a
- Amend and recommit to aging
- Referred to aging
- Referred to aging
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Title of bill
An act to amend the elder law, in relation to prohibiting a diminution of certain employee benefits
Summary of provisions
This bill adds a new Article 4 to the Elder Law to prohibit the diminution of the health care benefits of retired employees after they have retired, making any such diminution null and void as against state policy.
Justification
This measure requires that if an employer has made an agreement concerning health benefits for an employee, and the employee is retired and receiving benefits, the employer cannot then later unilaterally reduce the benefits.
This measure is much needed. Some employers, looking for areas in which to save money, have begun to reduce the health benefits to retired workers-the ones not represented at the bargaining table or employed as current employees.
Prior legislative history
S.6559 of '06 - Aging, Rules
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
90 days after it becomes law.
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