Parents of young children can relate to when a child refuses to eat something they do not like; vegetables tending often to be the culprit. When the child refuses, the parent will ask, “Why don’t you want to eat it?” The inevitable response is, “Because I don’t want to!” Rather than addressing the fallacy of
“A practice or policy extended over a period of time does not translate into an implied contract right [to a continued retiree medical benefit] without clear legislative intent to create that right – an intent that REAOC has not demonstrated here.” That was the holding of the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the
The vested nature of public employee retirement benefits is a hot topic. On the one hand, there are municipalities dealing with increasing pension costs and unfunded liabilities. On the other hand, there are often times a vested right to future pension benefits for employees and retirees cannot be impaired except under very limited circumstances. Most