BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An organization representing Louisiana's retired state employees on Thursday challenged Gov. Bobby Jindal's new pension plan for future rank-and-file state workers.
The Retired State Employees Association of Louisiana claims the law, pushed by Jindal and passed earlier this year, is unconstitutional because it didn't get a two-thirds vote in the state House of Representatives.
The lawsuit was filed in Baton Rouge district court, according to Frank Jobert, executive director of the organization.
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