Will I still get my pension if the new owner doesn't offer the same plan?

What happens to your pension depends heavily on the type of plan and exactly how the sale is structured, and it's genuinely one of the more technical areas of a business sale from a worker's point of view. If your employer stays legally the same, typical of a share sale, your existing pension plan generally continues untouched.

If the business is sold as assets and you become an employee of a new corporate entity, the new owner isn't automatically bound to continue the seller's exact pension plan — it may offer its own plan instead, wind down participation in the old one, or, less commonly, arrange for benefits already earned to be transferred. Benefits you've already earned under the old plan don't simply disappear because of a change in employer, but how they're preserved, transferred, or paid out is governed by the plan's own terms and applicable pension rules, not by the sale documents alone.

Because this involves real money and genuinely complex rules that vary by plan type, ask your plan administrator directly, in writing, what's happening to your existing pension benefits and what any new arrangement will look like before assuming either the best or the worst.