Sentences with phrase «about public sector pensions»

But she then attempts to persuade readers not to worry about public sector pensions and instead focus on the retirement savings problems in the private sector.

Do you really think you can lecture us about public sector pensions when it's your lot who set up the perverse compensation schemes for places like Network Rail?

Disappointment at what you said about public sector pensions, anti-union legislation, council house sales, to name but three.

YouGov also asked a series of questions about public sector pensions — 74 % of people thought that public sector pensioners got a better deal than those who worked in the private sector and 60 % of those thought they did not deserve this (predictably there was a huge difference between public and private sector workers on this question — 55 % of public sector workers thought that, yes, they did deserve better pensions than the private sector).

No - one really wanted to set out where the cuts will hit, and we had diversionary tactics such as talking about public sector pensions for the few very well paid public sector staff that won't make any real contribution to reducing the deficit.

PCS says the government's announcement this morning about public sector pension contributions makes a mockery of the ongoing negotiations and proves that the government is determined to make people pay more and work longer in return for smaller pensions.

Not exact matches

12:11 - After a question on public sector pensions - the first which hasn't been about Europe - we get a question from Tory Steven Baker, who calls on Britain to «leave Europe» altogether.

Following the submission today of the NASUWT response to the Department for Education consultation on «Proposed Increases to Contributions for Members of the Teachers» Pension Scheme», Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The Coalition Government should tell the public the truth about why it is seeking to raid the pensions of millions of ordinary public service workers and why it is taxing public sector workers who are acting responsibly by trying to save for their retirement.

Noel DiGerolamo, second vice president of Suffolk's Police Benevolent Association, which has about 5,000 members, said public - sector workers are being blamed for ballooning pension costs when Wall Street investment houses are the true culprits.

«Isn't this part of a much bigger issue which is there is growing anger in what she calls the court of public opinion not just about the pension and renumeration of what are now public sector employees but about other public sector fat cats including senior civil servants and dare I say it ministers about their very lavish and generous pension?»

«Last week the government's true agenda was rumbled, with ministers exposed for making misleading statements about the viability of public sector pensions.

Unless the government does an about - turn on its plans to force public sector workers to work longer and pay more for much less pension in retirement, this first joint strike will include 750,000 public servants.

Asked about the government's proposals for the future of public sector pensions, the most popular option was the government's original plan to gradually increase the retirement age of public sector workers under 50 to 65, supported by 39 % of respondents.

Pension reform is a key plank of the coalition's economic policy, it has tasked Labour peer Lord Hutton with bringing about a new system for public sector schemes that is sustainable.

38 % of people think public sector pensions are too generous, 25 % about right and 11 % not generous enough (meaning there is a broadly even split between people who think they are too high, and people who think they are about right or not high enough).

«Conservatives worry about Clegg's increasingly petulant reaction to EU veto Main Downing Street is confident of a public sector pensions deal being reached with the unions»

I am happy you have been elected I have an issue about pensions and retirement, which is the main topic at the moment, as I work in the public sector Here it is... Hope you are well

«Tories in Buckingham will be free to vote for Nigel Farage but CCHQ worries about publicity coup for UKIP Main A Conservative Government would prioritise tackling the excesses of public sector pensions»

Prime Minister David Cameron, meanwhile, indicated that public sector pensions would also be hit as the government set about repairing the # 85bn «black hole» in the public finances.

«As a result, millions of public sector workers, many of them women, such as classroom assistants, health visitors, and nursery nurses are in the firing line and face complete uncertainty about their future pension.

Moreover, the report's descriptions about teacher pension plans are wildly out of touch with reality and attempt to paper over real problems in the public sector.

It's understandable that as a trade group representing large pension plans, the NPPC doesn't want to have a conversation about why public - sector retirement plans like those offered to teachers are getting worse over time, while those offered in the private sector keep getting better.

But you have less to worry about than you think, especially if you're in a public - sector defined benefit pension backstopped by taxpayers.

There are about 10,000 pensions in Canada, and 55 % of those are held in the public sector.

And you've probably read about threatened U.S. public sector pensions in places like recently bankrupt Detroit.

There has recently been a spate of articles on the internet about how jealous people are of public sector «gold - plated pensions» in Canada.