Sentences with phrase «protect public sector pensions»

«The NUT is party to the TUC negotiations with Government to protect public sector pensions.

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.

Not exact matches

But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»

Former prime minister Gordon Brown said in April 2014 that Scotland had an above - average share of the public - sector pension bill and concluded that pensions would be protected by sharing risks and resources within the UK.

Despite the promise of the Coalition Government to protect accrued pension rights, regardless of the outcome of the current Review of public sector pensions, millions of public sector workers are now facing a retirement beset by worry and financial uncertainty following the Coalition Government's decision to switch pension calculations from the Retail Price Index (RPI) to the Consumer Price Index (CPI).

The parties commit to establishing an independent commission to review the long term affordability of public sector pensions, while protecting accrued rights.

«These are the same people who protected their own pension scheme but cut the pensions of the lowest - paid public sector workers,» he added.

Public sector workers have their pensions protected, even if another provider takes over the service, under «fair deal» rules agreed by Labour in the late 1990s.

And unlike a public sector pension plan, which is protected by the state constitution and whose benefits can't be diminished even in an economic crisis, the retirement savings plan the city is proposing would be very much subject to the vagaries of the market.

«While the government must protect the employment and pensions of Carillion's public sector workers it must also take a long hard look at its encouragement of private sector involvement in schools and the unnecessary risks being taken with children's education and wellbeing.»