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GILBERT v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC.

Nos. 902, 943, 953, Dockets 84-7824, 84-7908 and 84-7914.

765 F.2d 320 (1985)

Irving GILBERT, Irene Prince, David J. Frank, Herbert P. Kaplan, Bernard H. Largman, Phillip R. Mullins, Dora Nicolini, Herbert Peppel, Bertha Richie, David Schoeneck, Raquel R. Silensky, Marie Silvestri, Brenda Tillman Humphreys, B. Gaither Shaw, Jr., Michael Loschenko, Robert E. Ahrens, Benjamin F. Blye, Jr., David H. Brunt, Jack R. Carpenter, Kenneth E. Eckard, Ronald F. Gauthier, Louis Gorelick, Jeremy Harris, Ronald H. Hicks, Robert D. Huddleston, Thomas R. Jerome, Gaston D. Lopez, Dorothy Novak, Anthony J. Petronis, Bernard Porvin, Charles A. Powers, Saul Roth, James A. Sbarboro, John Sells, James M. Stutts, and Gordon L. Van Dusen, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Lillian Roberts, as Commissioner of Labor of the State of New York, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. BURLINGTON INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 17, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor Rabinowitz, New York City (Emily Bass, Terry Gross, Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jane Lauer Barker, Deputy Bureau Chief, New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Robert Hermann, Sol. Gen., O. Peter Sherwood, Deputy Sol. Gen., Carlin Meyer, Asst. Atty. Gen. in Charge of Labor Bureau, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-intervenor-appellant.

Daniel Riesel, New York City (Lawrence R. Sandak, Sive, Paget & Riesel, P.C., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Lacy H. Thornburg, N.C. Atty. Gen., Tiare B. Smiley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, N.C., John C. Brooks, N.C. Com'r of Labor, Thomas A. Harris, Director, Wage and Hour Div., N.C. Dept. of Labor, Raleigh, N.C., filed a brief, for amici curiae for the States of Alaska, Conn., Hawaii, Ill., Md., Mont., N.C., Okl., Vt., Wis., and the District of Columbia.

Before TIMBERS, CARDAMONE and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge.

We review on this appeal an employer's severance pay policy to decide whether it is an ERISA plan that preempts a state from ordering an employer to pay benefits to departing employees. By the terms of the employer's manual, eligibility to receive severance pay was limited to those employees "involuntarily terminated" from the company, i.e., separated from the employer's payroll and not later reemployed by the company. Eligibility...

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