first since that is the most straightforward. “Virtually every court to consider the issue has concluded that pension and retirement plans are perquisites of seniority. Accordingly, employers must make contributions and grant vesting on the returning employee’s behalf.” 132 Mil. L.Rev. 175, 190. For example, the court in Alabama Power held that “pension payments are predominantly rewards for continuous employment with the same employer” and required that the employer pay the veteran employee “the pension to which he would have been entitled by virtue of his lengthy service if he had not” entered the military, 431 U.S. at 594, 97 S.Ct. 2002; see also Bunnell v. New England Teamsters and Trucking Industry Pension Fund, 486 F.Supp. 714 (D.Mass., 1980), aff'd 655 F.2d 451 (1 Cir., 1981)(<HOLDING>). Thus, I find that the Town must make
recognizing that pension plan administrators have the ability to fashion their own plan formulas holding that the defendant withheld pension benefits in breach of the plan holding that discriminatory act occurred when employer amended its plan in response to pda but did not amend service credit for pension purposes holding that appropriate remedy was to compute service credit for veterans in accordance with vrra rather than pursuant to employers pension plan and requiring retroactive pension plan payments to be made holding that the family courts award to exwife of interest in 387 of debtors military pension payable directly from the plan was not subject to discharge because interest in pension plan was not a debt rather it was considered exwifes separate ownership interest