Charles Storke Email & Phone Number

Over 35 years experience in the employee benefits field representing regional, state-wide and local multiemployer pension and health and welfare plans, including the Western Conference of Teamsters Pension Trust Fund, the largest Taft-Hartley trust in the United States.Comprehensive knowledge of and experience with tax-qualification and other Internal Revenue Code issues for multiemployer pension plans; instrumental in designing and implementing a hybrid defined benefit-defined contribution multiemployer pension plan structure that gives Taft-Hartley trustees wide flexibility in maintaining negotiated pension levels while providing significant allocations to individual accounts for participants.Counsels trustees on their responsibilities under the funding provisions of the Pension Protection Act and the parties who sponsor those plans on the implications of those funding requirements for their labor negotiations; directly involved in crafting the multiemployer funding relief provisions of the Pension Relief Act of 2010.

Listed skills include Erisa, Pensions, Employee Benefits, Pension Funds, and 13 others.