7th Circuit: Trustees May Audit Full Payroll Records In Multiemployer Dispute

Mealey's (October 29, 2019, 1:01 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A district court erred when it granted summary judgment to an employer in a multiemployer pension dispute under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and limited the scope of the trustees’ audit authority, a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Oct. 24, finding that the employer signed on to a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that permitted random audits of full payroll records (Electrical Construction Industry Prefunding Credit Reimbursement Program, et al. v. Veterans Electric, LLC, Nos. 19-1051 and 18-3703, 7th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 31870)....