D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge: When W.L. Gore Associates, Inc., (Gore) closed its Phoenix, Arizona, electronic parts plant in 1998, many of its employees lost their jobs before they qualified for an additional year of vesting and benefit accrual credit under Gore’s stock ownership and pension benefit plan (Plan). Gore’s Plan used the long-standing “elapsed-time method” to calculate vesting and benefit accrual. Th…
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