Opinion ID: 758774
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Standing Under PG & E's Severance Plan

Text: 38 Unlike the health plan, PG & E's employees were not automatically enrolled in the severance plan. PG & E's 1993 and 1994 severance plans provide: INVOLUNTARY SEVERANCE PROGRAM 39 This option will be made available to all management and non-bargaining unit employees who are not offered a regular position by the end of the second 45-day redeployment period. Payment is dependent on the signing of the Severance Agreement and Release prior to the end of the second 45-day period, and the expiration of the seven-day revocation period. 40 CR-55, Ex. A, p. 14; Ex. B, p. 12. 41 These severance plans conditioned entitlement to severance benefits upon the timely completion of the Severance and Agreement Release. In other words, a PG & E employee could not participate in the severance plan without first completing and returning this agreement. The plaintiffs do not contend they satisfied this requirement of the severance plans. In the absence of such participation, the plaintiffs, even if PG & E common-law employees, are not entitled to benefits under the severance plan, and thus do not have a colorable claim to benefits under the plan. Therefore, we agree with the district court that plaintiffs lack standing to sue for benefits under the severance plan.