Sentences with phrase «make public sector pensions»

To his credit, Prime Minister David Cameron and his ministers have been robust in defending the reforms, saying that the changes are designed to make public sector pensions affordable for the long term and failure to reform will bankrupt the whole system, a point even many on the Labour benches recognise.

«Lord Hutton's final report is a big step forward towards making public sector pensions affordable and sustainable in the long - term.

Not exact matches

They made a good opening gambit, I'd say, on public sector pensions and MP pensions.

Mr Maude said that former pensions secretary John Hutton's recent report on public sector pensions had prompted a cross-party consensus that they needed to be made «fairer and more sustainable».

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.

But ministers, currently engaged in a standoff with union officials over public sector pension changes, are unlikely to be willing to make major concessions.

Commenting on remarks made by Ed Miliband on public sector pension reform during his Question & Answer session at TUC Congress, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said this:

That means making sure that public sector pay and pensions reflect the realities of the economic situation.

«This change represents nothing more than naked raiding of public service workers» pensions to make them pay the price for the greed and recklessness of the financial 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.

Parrott said critics are making pensions and public - sector workers scapegoats for the economic collapse.

Even the savings made on public sector pensions provide only a false economy.

«This coming year is going to be one of the most challenging years for the trade union movement - and public sector trade unions in particular - as the coalition government seeks to make the public sector and its workforce pay for the crisis, through cuts to jobs, services, pay and pensions.

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

The Cuomo campaign is very sensitive to possibly being labled «anti-union», and so is making a clear distinction between private unions that, as one source explained to me, «represent real working people», and public sector unions whose expensive contracts and pensions and refusals to agree to give - backs has labled them special interest No. 1 in many minds.

Pay freezes in the public sector and the threatened increase in pension contributions will make matters worse.

Tory MPs, whose constituencies are predominantly made up of private sector workers, echoed Alexander's remarks that public sector workers would still receive a better pension than most in private sector.

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Maintaining a defined benefit system delays a reckoning with public sector pensions, it does not make them financially sustainable.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs are threatened, pay is being frozen or set below inflation and the government has made it clear it will implement Lord Hutton's proposals on public sector pensions, meaning civil and public servants will pay more and work longer for a lower pension.

«The Conservative party pledged to crack down on public sector pay and pensions on Monday, in a politically risky bid to make state «excess» a battle line at the next general election.

Proposals: Chancellor George Osborne will publish plans that could see public sector workers transferred to less generous pensions Public sector workers could see their «gold - plated» pensions slashed to make it easier to transfer services to private firms and charpublic sector workers transferred to less generous pensions Public sector workers could see their «gold - plated» pensions slashed to make it easier to transfer services to private firms and charPublic sector workers could see their «gold - plated» pensions slashed to make it easier to transfer services to private firms and charities.

Many states protect public sector pension benefits with strong, near ironclad legal rules that make it tough - to - impossible to reduce benefits for existing workers.

One of your colleagues Marty Lueken, who is an expert on the public sector pension crisis made a comment.

Cutting public sector pensions won't help private sector workers — it will just make everyone poorer in retirement.

The decline of defined benefit pension plans outside of the public sector, coupled with the rise of self - employment, contract work and precarious, part - time labour have made saving for retirement more challenging — and more important — than ever.

The campaigners were being told that it was not legally possible to make a rule change retrospectively (for those widows already in receipt of pensions) and that even were it possible this would be resisted by government due to the legal precedent it would set, and the knock - on effect it might have on other public sector schemes.

Shubha Banerjee, solicitor at Leigh Day, who represents 230 judges, said: «Following the report of Lord Hutton in 2011 into ways of reducing the costs of public sector pensions, the government sought to make changes across the public sector including to the pensions of police, firefighters, teachers, prison officers and others.

«For most public sector groups, changes to pension were made according to age — younger members of schemes were required to leave their very beneficial schemes and instead offered membership of less valuable schemes whilst older scheme members were allowed to remain in their very beneficial schemes.

This obliges contractors to make broadly similar pension provision to that available from the previous public sector employer.

The fire - fighters alleged that the reforms made to their pensions following the Hutton Report into public sector pensions were discriminatory of the grounds of age, sex and race.