US - The Californian Legislature is to consider an amendment to the state's Constitution that would disallow any employee hired by a public agency after July 1, 2007, from enrolling in a defined benefit (DB) plan.
Amendment 5, proposed by Assembly Member Keith Richman, new public employees would be put into the same type of 401(k) pension system – defined contribution (DC) plans - offered to most private sec...
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