AARP lawsuit delays final EEOC ruling on retiree health plans.(News)(Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)

Business Insurance, February, 2005 by GEISEL, JERRY

Byline: JERRY GEISEL PHILADELPHIA-Employers are going to have to wait longer-perhaps a lot longer-to find out if a longstanding legal threat to retiree health care plans is gone. Earlier this month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, agreed, as part of legal proceedings brought before a U.S.

District Court judge in Philadelphia, agreed not to publish for 60 days a final rule that would exempt retiree health care plans from the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Responding to a complaint filed by the AARP, Judge Anita Brody agreed to hear oral arguments next month on the legality of the rule, which the EEOC had been expected to send to the Federal Register some time this month. The rule would have gone into effect upon publication. The AARP...

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