That plan involved pension funds backing the city's debt.
Ineos had earlier threatened to shut down the petrochemical plant by 2017 unless employees accepted a "survival" plan involving pension cuts and some layoffs.
He said the proposals would involve pension and expenses arrangements, not just pay, and claimed the public had a "more nuanced and split opinion" than many politicians suspected.
She told lawyers on Monday that she would also name a lead plaintiff in another group of cases, those involving pension funds.
Soon, the lead lawyers were named in the other large cases against Andersen, involving pension fund participants, and the Securities and Exchange Commission was negotiating its own settlement terms with Andersen.
Next month he is to become a staff trial lawyer for the Labor Department's Office of the Solicitor, working on violations of laws and regulations involving pension plans and benefits.
LONDON — One of the largest manufacturing plants in Scotland will be closed with the loss of hundreds of jobs, the chemical giant Ineos said on Wednesday, after employees there declined to accept an ownership plan involving pension and job cuts.
During Friday's talks, which lasted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., no offers were exchanged, but discussions involved pension issues, procedural contract matters and the biggest stumbling block in talks so far — how the league will honor existing contracts under a lower salary cap.
The state agency did change requirements it has imposed about salary and office locations, as well as some bookkeeping issues involving pension funds, in response to the companies' complaint that it was micromanaging their businesses.The combined company would be the country's largest electric and gas utility.
The sticking points are apparently not over the main terms of the contract, but finer points involving pensions, job titles and mandatory overtime.
