Sentences with phrase «local government pension scheme»

Today's announcement comes as part of ongoing discussions about local government pensions schemes.
R (Palestine Solidarity Campaign) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] EWHC 1502, [2017] 1 WLR 4611, [2017] Pens LR 17 The Secretary of State's guidance to local government pension scheme authorities, to the effect that they were not entitled to take into account non-financial factors in their investment decisions where this was contrary to UK foreign or defence policy, was unlawful.
Nigel Giffin QC and Zac Sammour of 11KBW acted for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign in a successful challenge to guidance issued by the Secretary of State on how local government pension scheme (LGPS) administering authorities should take account of non-financial factors when drawing up statements of investment strategy.
Local government pension scheme campaign Find out about how the T&G is fighting for pensions justice for workers in the local government pension scheme.
Members of Unite, Britain's biggest union, who work in local government have voted to accept the proposals negotiated between local government employers and the trade unions on changes to the local government pension scheme (LGPS).
«Whilst the government took away Assembly Members» access to the local government pension scheme, the right to a pension remains firmly in place.
Independent consultant John Ralfe claimed that the deficit in the local government pension scheme had sky - rocketed to # 100 billion, up from # 42 billion in 2007.
The local government pension scheme is split into over 80 different funds, with 1.7 million workers paying for four million total members.
The agreement finally reached on the local government pension scheme after the government made significant concessions has rather less to do with official generosity than fear about the consequences if the scheme were so eviscerated that hundreds of thousands of local government workers might decide there was no point in continuing to contribute to it since, if they walked away, they would still get the same amount of money in retirement from means - tested income support.
The result is that local government workers, faced with an average additional 3 % increase in their contributions which will then yield a much reduced pensions, are likely to abandon the local government pension scheme in droves as no longer worthwhile, thus adding to the State's welfare bill in retirement and perhaps collapsing the investment funds which this pension scheme feeds.
They also tend to have experience of the Teachers Pension scheme and Local Government Pension schemes and will also do all the administration associated with the pensions.
The occupational pension schemes are the local government pension scheme (LGPS) for non-teaching staff and the teachers» pensions scheme (TPS) for teaching staff.
• Acting for the successful Claimant in R (on the application of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2017] EWHC 1502 (Admin), a challenge to guidance from the defendant Secretary of State which sought to prohibit the administering authorities of the local government pension schemes from adopting policies of boycott, divestment and sanction against foreign nations (led by Nigel Giffin QC).
Advising on the employment aspects of the sale of an adoption and fostering business including issues involving a local government pension scheme and TUPE.
His pensions work includes acting in disputes concerning the local government pension scheme and other public sector schemes, as well as providing regular advice to administering authorities.
Examples include the issue of whether employers in the local government pension scheme may obtain a discount on their contributions by paying them early; and whether the executive head of a federation of academy schools is eligible for membership of the teachers» pension scheme.
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