Union challenge to Fair Deal reform to fail

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Unions will lose their battle to retain Fair Deal pension rights for outsourced workers, lawyers predict.

The Fair Deal policy states staff transferred from a public to a private sector employer – when their service is outsourced – must be given access to a comparable pension scheme. The Treasury launc...

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