Court OKs California program for workers without benefits
Are you a worker worried you won’t have enough money to retire? But the court said CalSavers did not interfere with the goals of the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. The federal law “does not preclude California’s endeavor to encourage personal retirement savings by requiring employers who do not offer retirement plans to participate in CalSavers,” Judge Daniel A. Bress, a Trump appointee, wrote for the panel. The anti-tax group argued that the federal law, which established minimum standards for pensions, barred California from creating CalSavers. Laws passed by...